Early Reading Skills

Have students learn to read the individual symbols of the alphabet and phonetic alphabet first. Next, teach them to focus on the vowel sounds as they read the alphabetic and phonetic stories out loud. To read well, they must blend sounds, syllables, and words into sentences. This means that students must learn to decode and read words sound-by-sound and syllable-by-syllable. To do that, they must practice reading both the alphabetic and phonetic spelling of each word before voicing it.