Beginning Letter Sound Strategy | Episode 028

Reading Boots Episode 028, gets down to the basics of how to use the Beginning Letter Sound Strategy. The Beginning Letter Sound Strategy is an important decoding strategy where your child will look at the first letter of a word and get his/her mouth read to make the first sound to figure out unknown words. This is the start of sounding out words. You will model this strategy for your child, then you will encourage him/her to make the first letter sound to figure out the new word.

The Beginning Letter Sound Strategy is one of the most basic and fundamental decoding strategies that is taught to beginning readers. Although it seems like a simple strategy, it needs to be explicitly taught to young children.

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