Vowels and Consonants

Vowels and Consonants.
Because we are going to start your child reading right away, we will need to introduce all of the vowels. Vowels are very difficult to master when learned separately; some sound so much alike, that they really need to be learned alongside their similar sounding partner.

Here's how it's done:
"A" says (say short a sound) as in a a a apple. A says a a a.
"E" says (say short e sound) as in
Be very careful here not to use "elephant" or "elk" or any other word that might give the child the impression that the word starts with the "L" sound. The same principal applies for "envelope" or "ember", or any word that makes the "N" (en) or "M" (em)
sound.
We are teaching short vowel sounds at first. This is because your child will be primarily reading short words with the short vowel sound.

Please note, though, we will only be comparing two at any given lesson.

These two vowels are good ones to start with. In the days to come, your child will be forming words.