Connect Two Sounds to Two Letters

Supplied materials

• Adult read-aloud card: m — moon, map; s — sun, sock. Show the child m and s while saying these familiar words.
• Paper and pencil; spoken responses are welcome.

Learn the idea

A letter is a written mark. A sound is something we hear in a spoken word. For this small practice, an adult points to lowercase m and says the humming sound /m/, then points to lowercase s and says /s/, like a quiet hiss. Say the sound without adding “uh.”

Listen to moon and map: each starts with /m/. Sun and sock start with /s/. This lesson connects these two sounds to these two printed letters; it does not say every letter always has one sound. The adult supplies the word, so the learner can focus on hearing its beginning and choosing the printed mark.

1. Have an adult show m, make /m/, and invite you to repeat or listen.
2. Have the adult show s and make /s/ without an added vowel.
3. Listen to sun, then point to s; listen to moon, then point to m.
4. Look at the four choices while the adult says map; choose its starting letter.

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Take it further

Change the spoken word to sock. Model: “I hear /s/ first in sock, so I choose s.” Then change it to moon: “I hear /m/, so I choose m.” Use familiar pronunciations and invite repetition without correcting an accent.

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