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As soon as your child has mastered the letter sounds and the alphabet and you have your
word notebook ready, you can start working on their first words. First words as I said
before should be always simple consonant, vowel, consonant or just vowel, consonant,
such as cat, of course, everybody loves to start with that and dog, and pan and pin but
you can also do the two letter ones which are very important, in, at, is and as many
others as you can think of. These are your first words. What I do is, on a notebook like
this I'll skip lines and I'll fill up one column and two columns, maybe three columns,
depending on how large you write and then I have the child go through and sound out
each word. Maybe we'll start with just one column the first few days. Once they master
that column, go, maybe fill up a whole page. This is the most basic with these simple short
vowel sound words. Make sure that you don't put a word in here like was because even though
was is consonant, vowel, consonant, the a does not make an aa sound and we're just teaching
the basic vowel sounds which are called short vowels. A makes what you would say makes a
u sound in that case so was is not a word we put on here. We'll talk about that later.
But think of as many words as you can possibly think of and just keep adding to this list
and have the child start at the beginning and practice this every day and even if it
goes for pages, after a while they get very fast at it and it's a lot of fun but in the
beginning, let them work out each word carefully and sound it out and again, covering the letter
as they learn.