Recall how to say words

• spontaneous conversation; talk about pictures seen, experiences.
• learn to say words, imitate words of increasing complexity in play.
• recall the names of familiar objects and events, recalling names faster.
• recall a sequence of names, for example, numbers one to ten, versions of "I went window shopping", for example, "I went to beach and saw a seagull", "I went to beach and saw a seagull and a fish", ......
• recognise and say rhyming words and words that alliterate.
• listen for and remember a shared sound.

Segment words into sounds and blend

• segment words into onset and rime.
• identify the first sound and the last sound in words.
• segment a word into sounds, tap for each sound, and count the sounds in a word.
• blend onset and rime to make a word
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• blend a sequence of sounds to make a word.
• segment 2- 3- or 4- syllable words into syllables by clapping, saying each syllable and say each sound.
• comprehend short vs long vowel sound.

Manipulate sounds in 1- syllable word

• delete a sound from a word and saying the word left.
• substitute one sound for another.
• identify sound shared by 2 or more words.
• syllabify multi-syllabic words.
• recognise syllables or morphemes in oral language, segment words into functional groups of sounds, (for example, look-ed, in-side, terr-ible).
• categorising sound groups, for example, long versus short sounds.
• listening for a sound pattern in multi-syllabic words.

• pronounce more sophisticated words.
• recognise the same sound segment in 2- and 3- syllable words.
• blend 2-, 3- syllables to match a known word by modifying the stress pattern.
• discuss stress patterns, recognise the schwa in 2- and 3- syllable words.
• segment 2- and 3- syllable words into sounds, recognising the schwa.
• recalling multi-syllabic words that share a sound pattern, for example, "inside", "preside" ...... or "microphone, microbe ......", or that rhyme, etc.