Hi Debbie,
I thought I’d send you a few more pics to show you how I’ve been using your Teeny Reading Seeds resources this past week to begin introducing basic letter sound recognition to my 3yo, Ellie. She’s only 3 years 2 months but has been growing rather jealous in recent weeks of her 5yo brother learning to read, not least because she can see what a source of pride it is to him. So I decided to put up your alphabet frieze on the wall last weekend for her and have now started some basic letter sound work with her (initial sound treasure hunts etc). The hollow letter sheets, in particular, are so great for painting, crafting and playdough. She’s delighted that she can now read /a/ and /b/! (As she’s still a bit young for a formal phonics programme, and we have plenty of time before she starts state nursery in September, I’ve decided to introduce the letter sounds alphabetically, as I think this will feel more logical to her, as she can see us working our way through the letters on your alphabet frieze, learning to read each of the letter sounds in turn.)
Thanks again – they’re such well designed, versatile and user-friendly resources, and I love the consistency of them (ie the letter shapes are always consistent and the same images appear across the different materials, helping to reinforce the learning). I also emailed my son’s school to recommend them to the nursery teachers there.
We were looking at your alphabetic code chart together just yesterday, as we were setting about making a wall picture together to illustrate the “aw” digraph, and he said, “could we draw a picture of a door?”
I said, “No, because that’s spelt d o o r,” and he said, “Ooh, so that’s a new trigraph that we’ve not met before, Mummy.” We checked the chart and he was really pleased to see -oor on it, with a picture of a door.
Best wishes,
Kate