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Sound Discrimination: What to Do When Children Cannot "Hear" Beginning Sounds

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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ Every year in Kindergarten, there are always a few children in my class that struggle with sound discrimination, or the ability to "hear" and distinguish between the beginning sounds in words.  The task that we give the children seems simple:  just tell me the beginning sound of the word that I say.  If I say dog, they should give me the sound of the letter "d," (which we write down as "d/".)  If I say the word "pig," the...
   

Valentine Robot CVC Game Freebie!

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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ Here's a fun, FREE game for helping your kindergarten or pre-K students practice CVC words, and it's just in time for Valentine's Day!  I have decided to call it the Valentine Robot CVC Game!   I have also included some blank robots at the end of the file, so that you can write in whichever words you need to work on the most, rather than the ones I selected. This is one of those simple games where you hide an object under e...
   

Eight Great Tricks for Sounding Out Three Letter Words

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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ In November, I posted a blog entry on teaching children to sound out CVC (Consonant-Vowel-Consonant) words.  And like most Kindergarten classes, we are still working on mastering that skill. While most of my kids are doing fairly well with this, there are still a few little ones that are struggling to figure out how to blend sounds together. These are mostly the younger ones with the fall birthdays, so it is really not their fault at al...