can you help for a kindergarten child in letters and sounds to learn the sounds?

Question

She has trouble memorizing certain letters and sounds.

Answer 1

with my daughter we make up silly really silly name or rhymes
or that song that goes like i like to eat eat eat apples and bananas i like to out out out opples and bonnonos. and it goes on till you finished all the vowels. i cant even tell you the rhymes i use b/c you ll laugh at me but we use the word booger and toes in the same sentence . silly works for me and plus it makes it fun for me to and we will laugh and laugh but she gets it.and of course persistence is the key. maybe flash cards.with a reward system stickers work well.

Answer 2

A few (free) ideas:

1, play "which one is different'. Write four letters in a 2 by 2 grid, three the same and one different. Ask her to point to the one that is different. It is not necessary for her to know letter names at this point. Start easy eg. AABA then get to similar shape letters eg. CGCC or OOOQ then upper lower case combinations eg SSSs then lower case eg dppp or bpbb. The "bpqd" group may take a while and should be tackled last

2. Choose a letter of the day (or week) look for this letter on street signs, magazine covers etc

3. Make a picture dictionary. Write one letter on each page, find pictures in magazines that start with that letter, stick them in and then write the word for her underneath with the first letter written large and in a different colour. Read this together. It is a good idea to do at most one page per day. re read this often and encorage her to 'read' it herself. Actual reading is not necessary as she will see the pictures and see the large first letter. eg on the P page will be a picture of a Pig, Pie, Pencil, Person and Pumpkin. By saying these words and seeing a large P under each picture she will make the connection.

Answer 3

I make the letters into little animals or other objects that we relate the sound of the letter to, for example, the letter "h" into a house - the long stem being the chimney; the letter "f" into a flag, the letter "c" into a cookie with a bite out of it; the letter "s" into a snake, and so on. It works for my 4 year old and my 3 year old is starting to catch on to some letters and their sounds, too. Another thing that helps is to get a couple different workbooks and flash cards. Lots of repetition and consistency!!

Answer 4

hooked on phonics costs about $100.

a much cheaper option is the leapfrog fridge magnets. they have a docking station that they fit into, which reads each letter's chip and plays a little song that identifies the letters and says what sounds they make.
my kid learned all his letters by sight and the sounds they make by two and a half, and he's reading before 3 and a half.

Answer 5

My daughter learned from watching the Leap Frog DVD The Letter Factory! She loves it. You can get it at Wal-Mart for $10.

Answer 6

let her make clay models of those letters while repeating its sound.
you could be next to her repeating the sound and singing songs with that sound
also have pictures of animals or toys with the sound and help her to connect the two.

Answer 7

I agree with the last person> Hooked on phonics. It is now available at Wal-mart. It helped my daughter tremendously, and it is fun.

Answer 8

i learned through the letter people
these are pictures of them http://www.geocities.com/letterfolks/

these are there names (use the original version)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Letter_People

then, if you type in their name on google images, you can find each of their colring pages.... let her color... also if you look on E-bay, you'll find they have a CD or casette that has each letter's "song"

Answer 9

I like Hooked on Phonics but its expensive, try looking on ebay to see if you can get the books there.

Answer 10

my daughter's teacher has flash cards, and when she shows a card, everyone'll sing for that letter, such as "Who let the K out? Kuh, Kuh, Kuh" (like that song "who let the dogs out?"