What's Logan doing?
Logan shows fantastic sequence learning, with actions to match! He's so engaged with what he's doing, he clearly thinks it's important, he likes the reward and he stays focused, holding his attention on the game for a long time. It's so important at this age that learning is fun and Logan evidently loves doing this. So what's he actually learning? He's taking the first steps—at quite a pace—on the long road of language learning. The pairing between letter names and sounds is not always obvious and has to be learned. Logan gets high marks for this.
What’s the next step?
If Dad wants to try some variations on this game, he could try doing the alphabet backwards, or in random order. Because he knows the letter sounds, Logan is ready to start learning letter shapes. There are so many ways to go from there; Logan has a lot of options. He's learning key language sounds, so one next step is to learn the rest of the 44 basic sounds we have in English. Once he’s mastered these he will learn how these sounds blend to make words. For example, blending /a/ and /n/ make /an/. Normally, children only learn these individual sounds once they start reading and have to put together letter combinations that make odd sounds (t and h make th). However, blending letter sounds really helps children’s reading skills.
The Fridge Phonics Magnet Set is very popular because it teaches children to recognize the letter shapes and associate them with their sounds.
Add the Word Whammer Fridge Phonics Set to put those sounds and shapes together to form words.
