Getting Ready H
This video is made for kids, so your child can watch it with you. It's also a good model for how to teach these skills.
Getting Ready H
What this lesson is about
The vowel chart. Vowels are lined up by where the tongue sits (high or low, front or back). Your child hears the difference between familiar vowel sounds, such as the vowel in “cap” and the vowel in “cape.” Long and short are conventional names for these different sounds.
Try it
- Say the short vowels together in a mirror: apple, egg, itch, octopus, up.
- Compare the vowels in “cap” and “cape,” then “kit” and “kite.” Notice how your mouth shape and tongue position change; you do not need to tighten your mouth.
- Have your child pick one vowel and you guess which mouth shape goes with it.
Letters this lesson
A: Start at the top. Slant down to the bottom left. Lift and return to the top, then slant down to the bottom right. Lift and draw a line across the middle. Say the letter name “A” as you show it.
K: Down. Then a slanted line in from the top right to the middle, and another slanted line down to the bottom right.
M: Start at the top left and go down. Lift. Return to the top left, slant down to the bottom middle, slant up to the top right, then go straight down.
- N: Down. Then slant to the bottom right and go straight up.