Learning to hear the sounds within words – tricky consonant blends: ft and dr.
If children find any consonant blends, such as “ft”, particularly difficult, say the individual sounds drawn out as much as possible, /ffff/ /t/, and close together. Keep doing this until they can finally hear the individual sounds.
Use as many ways as possible to teach and reinforce each letter as it is learned. This is particularly important for “j” as sometimes children confuse it with the letter “g”.
Sometimes children have great difficulty hearing the individual sounds in the initial consonant blend “dr”. They tend to get it confused with /j/ or /ch/. Practice saying “dr” as /d/ /rrrr/ (as for “ft” above). Get them making up words that start with “dr” with their set of letters – e.g. drop, drip, drum, drag … Then practise writing them. Try getting them to make up nonsense words to read as well. They could do this by starting with a real word and then changing the vowel or the final consonant.
Learn capital letters as needed, to start a person’s name or a sentence.
Click on the bottom right hand corner of each video to see it full screen. If you have trouble seeing the videos try Gg and Phonic Comic 1/23, ft, j, Phonic Comic 1/24, Phonic Comic 1/25, et wet jet
All illustrations for Phonic Comic books © A. H. M. Wherrett, 2004.
To see the other videos go to Videos for Children
Print the books easy 1-23, easy 1-24 and easy 1-25 back-to-back on A4 paper, cut across the centre on the line, assemble, fold and staple.
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