This program shows many ways to help students put letter-sound association into memory. Viewers learn to lead tactile exercises that help the child associate letters with individual sounds. The National Research Council says these methods are very effective.

See and learn:

• Sound cards which show the letter and picture something beginning with that letter.
• Students learning to watch the teacher’s tongue and teeth. “Look at my mouth.” “Willy the Washer” shows how to make the w sound with the lips opening up. “When he washed he went wa, wa, wa.” Seeing the shape of the mouth with cards for visual cues helps bi-lingual children in particular.
• Footsteps, another tactile exercise drill. When Whitney steps on a paper footprint with the letter, says its name and then its sound, she puts it in memory.
• How wikki stix can help teach early literacy.

28 minutes.
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