Sher Marshall on Instagram: "✨Preschool parents — you might be skipping the most important part of learning to read. Most of us start by teaching letters, but before a child can read words, their brain has to learn to hear them. That means noticing that cat has three separate sounds — /k/ /a/ /t/ — and that if you change one sound, the whole word changes. 🐱➡️🧢 This step is called phonemic awareness, and it’s how your child’s brain connects spoken language to print later on. 💜When kids skip th

Alana Sutherland | You CAN teach your child to read on Instagram: "he uses these skills EVERY day! A new reader will see a word that they’ve literally never seen before in their life each time they read. This is just the reality for someone just learning the language. Do they have the tools to decode & read that new word? Because they’re going to need it! Because VCCV is the most common pattern in the language, we teach that one first! Here’s some 2 syllable words to start with if you’re ready t