Finally we have published a simple and fun activity to help children move from sounds to words. Spelling is a major concern for many children and it is crucial that they are taught explicitly how sounds and letters work together to make words. Just like kicking a football or playing the piano, practice is the best way to master a skill.

Once children know a few letter-sound relationships, including a vowel, support them to take the next step - blending sounds together make words.

Segmenting - breaking a word into sounds and blending - putting sounds together to make a word can be difficult skills for literacy learners. Spelling and reading are complementary skills and need to be taught as such.

Using our NEW MAKING WORDS laminated placemat takes away the stress to be perfect. Most importantly, it eases the demands on memory by giving children a menu of letter choices. Children make a series of critical choices, circling the letters, capturing the sounds and freezing them in sequence in one quick sweep.

The teaching guide includes step-by-step instructions plus more than a hundred words grouped by vowel sound, -ck ending, and ss, ff, ll. It is fun and easy to use over and over again.

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