Sound Power & Digraphs
Question: What vowel sound do you hear in the middle of the word c-a-t?
Answer: /a/ (Short A)
Read this word: the
the
Nouns are people, places, animals or things
Question: Is a dog a person, an animal, or a place?
An animal
Question: Listen to these sounds and put them together to make a word: /m/ /a/ /t/.
mat
Should the very first letter of a sentence be a big capital letter or a small letter?
Capital letter
Question: What vowel sound do you hear in the middle of the word s-i-t?
Answer: /i/ (Short I)
Read this letter as a word in a sentence: I
"I want..."
"I see..."
"I am..."
Etc.
Question: Is a teacher a person, a place, or a thing?
A person
Listen to these sounds and put them together to make a word: /p/ /i/ /g/.
pig
What little dot do we put at the end of a sentence to stop it?
Period
Question: What vowel sound do you hear in the middle of the word m-o-p?
Answer: /o/ (Short O)
Read this WORD out loud: a
(the sound- /ə/ (uh))
Like in the sentence: "I need a /ə/ break"
Question: Is a school a person or a place?
A place
Let's clap the sounds. How many sounds do you hear in the word i-t?
2 sounds (/i/ and /t/)
What do we put between words so they don't smash together?
spaces (or finger spaces)
Question: What vowel sound do you hear in the middle of the word b-u-g?
Answer: /u/ (Short U)
Question: Read this word out loud: he
He
Question: Is a cup a person or a thing?
A thing.
If I say the word hat, what is the first sound you hear?
/h/
Question: Look at this sentence: The cat ran
What needs to go at the very end?
A period
Question: Two letters can make one sound. What single sound do you hear at the end of c-l-i-f-f?
Answer: /f/
Question: Read this word out loud: she
she
Question: If we have one cat and we add an S to the end, what does the word cats mean?
More than one cat
If I say the word hop, what is the last sound you hear?
/p/
Question: Look at this sentence: can the cat dig?
What is the special curved symbol at the end called?
A question mark