What to teach next after child learns ABC's ?

What to teach next after child learns ABC's ?

After your child learns ABC's you can further introduce:

Kg 1 level:

Introduce Vowels and consonents, After introducing simple vowel sounds introduce these as a consonants c, b, d, g, n and t, you can further move to short vowels in kg 2 level.

Kg 2 level: 

1. Short vowel sounds and blending with two letter words.

2. Making two letter words (phonemic awareness, phonics and spellings)

3. Rhyming words and syllables.

4. Phonetic words and Cvc words (phonetic awareness,reading fluency & hand writing skills) 

5. Making three letter words.(phonemic awareness, phonics and spellings)

6. Long vowel sounds spelled with silent "e".

7. Long vowel teams

8. R controlled vowels

9. Diphthongs

10. Phonograms (Sh and Ch) and so on.

11. Phoneme isolation (sound games can be played).Complete the words/ objects ( starting or Beginning and ending with vowels) because child cannot focus on the middle sound intially.

12. Phoneme blending (sound games can be played) and phonetic game which was taught to teachers in montessori education programs.

13. Phoneme segmentation (this can be done through simple pictures of objects around the house.One syllable words work best for beginners, you can make this material at home and can named this game as find Phoneme Count and Clip the specific number. E.g “How many sounds do you hear in this word- site?” (The answer is 3: /s/-/i/-/t/, as the e is silent.)

14. Letter words 

15. Use of a, an (article)

16. This or that 

17. Word study Singular plural (s)