Teach THESE Vowel Sounds First! (EASY PHONICS)

If you're not sure how to teach phonics or which vowel sounds (short vs. long vowels) to teach first: I've got you covered! In this video I'll show you exactly which vowel sounds to teach your little one first and explain why we start with the easier sounds when teaching children phonics!
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I call him an EDUCATOR. Truly brilliant!

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British viewers bear in mind that the American accent modifies some sounds in phonics so best use several sources when teaching phonics to littlies. Love the vid ❤

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Tell me about it,,,, I waited many years to finally understand the "harry patter" series that my son loves so much,, thanks to captions that is.. so difficult..

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God forbid the British learn to speak proper English

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I have the same problem. Whenever I find any video they are all in American accent, I have no idea how to explain him these differences.

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Thanks for raising this point. I am a Brit and hadn't considered this.

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I thank God for leading me to your channel a few minutes ago! Mostly for the straight forward, clear, and precise way you’ve explained this. This is vid number 2 and I’m feeling a little less overwhelmed already approaching the task of teaching my 3, 4, 6 and maybe even my 20-month old to read (?). Thank you! *My 4 and 6 year olds are sitting beside me as I watched just now and were totally engaged and repeating after you 😊

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Me too!

[@irishdaisy1628]

Feeling the same about this channel. Great timing! LO is 22 months, just started saying letters and words this past week.

[@Uncle_Yankee]

Keep doing what you do, man. I wish this was mainstream. Unfortunately, this is not how many kindergarten classes approach phonics.

[@SPEECH405]

Thank you so much for simplifying short and long vowels for me. I am currently in graduate school for Speech-Language Pathology and learning about speech-sound disorders. I have been struggling with understanding the International Phonetic Alphabet, so I have been researching videos on English Phonemes. This makes a lot of sense, so thank you for helping ease the stress of grad school.

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Thank you for clarifying it for everyone!

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You teach in an easy way to understand. So good. Play your videos over and over

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Blessing for you for sharing.

[@terridennis9185]

This is so good. I am teaching at an elementary school, English as a foreign language in South Korea. I agree with all of this. I am struggling because the public school system is failing many of my students. We are not teaching any phonics but expect them to read. I try my best to do the official curriculum and include my own elements, but its impossible to teach them to read with understanding. Some can read, and those kids are the fortunate ones. Some kids looking at the words as shapes and associating that with the word they learned. The system is unfair to those kids who dont have private lessons. I wish there was a way to teach the students this way, starting from the basics but with a class of 25-30 kids who are all on different levels and the school curriculum, its really challenging.

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The way North Americans speak English is NOT the way English people in England pronounce their words. I am glad this is still helping you.

[@randman21]

It's a shame phonics isn't being taught anymore! I'm 38 and still remember my phonics lessons in kindergarten. I went in knowing how to read, but phonics skyrocketed my ability to figure out words on my own.

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This is the best way explained and easy to follow for a parent who has no clue what to start, how to start and why to start.. thanks for the wonderful video ❤

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English language speakers Do Not know how to read because of public school system. comment please. generation after generation.

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Phonics was never my strength as a kid. My oldest had hyperlexia early on so this never became an issue. My youngest struggles like I did. After watching your video I feel equipped to teach them properly, now. Your are a blessing and thank you so much.

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My daughters sound cards came in today. She’s 20mo. old can’t wait to start with her tomorrow.

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How is it going after a year? 😊

[@khareldn]

Wonderful lesson! Thanks for teaching us. So clear! Thanks a lot from Nepal.

[@factscantbechanged2719]

Can you also do diagraph vowel sounds and diagraph consonant sounds too. Along with a trigraph and blending them too.

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This was so helpful! I'm going on teaching my 4th little one to read and all my other methoods are not working on him. This helped me see he is most likly confused. You rock!

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Thank you so much, this was helpful

[@irishdaisy1628]

Thanks! I wanted to hold off on vowels, but my husband didn't want that. This video helped me to understand how easy it can be.

[@sumnersnowgurl]

Ooooh! I was kinda delaying teaching vowels and have just been teaching some random consonants which I believe is easier to say, simply because I didn’t know how to go about it (teaching vowels). Short or long sound? So this video really helps!

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ok great I'm so glad it helps!

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Thank you so much. It's very useful.

[@nathanieljb666]

I’ve always taught my kids the sounds of the alphabet like I would teach them animals. I introduce them to the name and then show them the sound that it makes. Before reading at a very young age I begin this practice with animals. This is a cow, cow says moo. They get used to the format. So I show them the alphabet in the same way, this is A, A says ae. Once they’re in more of the level 2 stage of reading you show them how and when vowels say their names.

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My daughter who is 6 showed me a reel of this wonderful guy because we are working on blending! So helpful and even she thought so and that’s why she showed it to me ❤

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Going through your videos from the beginning! Thank you for your work!

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Thank you for these videos! They are helping me with my 7.5 year old homeschooling and re-medying reading. Gratitude for your effort and editing and teaching.

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You are welcome!

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I love your explanations! And I would add introducing closed syllables to teaching short vowels.

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This has been a really good video for me and I'm glad that i found your channel. I'm a single father and my daughter is starting kindergarten, I have been struggling to find a way to teach her reading skills and to focus on learning and I'm hoping that this makes it easier. As someone who took to things easily as a child I have no idea how to teach myself. Its hard to not get frustrated when she's just not getting it.

[@toddlerscanread]

Glad it was helpful! I have a 30 min free training that is helpful too if you’re interested!

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@toddlerscanread Yes very helpful, thanks. Where can the training be found? On your channel?

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Glad you liked it!

[@amaanat.]

At what stage do we introduce letter names? And also how and when to introduce words like said, they etc that can not be read phonetically?

[@zinebjalal1628]

Thank you for these videos! They are helping me personally with reading. English my second language. I am struggling with reading because when I learned English , they didn’t teach us phonics. Phonics are crucial in learning English and new learners ignore this part.

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Super helpful!! Thank you!!

[@karmjitrai1772]

Your videos are awesome! Soo helpful to not only get my kid blending but reading. Question! Is there a resource that walks us through teaching the long vowel sounds and the rules? (I.e. When e at the end makes the vowel say it's name)

[@toddlerscanread]

Thank you! My Reading Books course breaks these down for parents and gives fluency passages for kids to practice the rules in text. More info here! www.toddlersread.com/courses?

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What are some activities I can do with vowels and my 21 month old? Thanks so much for sharing, grateful for the resource.

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How about bilingual reading? since English is such a difficult language and it has all of these rules, would you recommend teaching English first and then the next language, or both can be taught but in different days, or both at the same time? I don't want to confuse my child. I am excited and I am thinking about purchasing your program for English, but I would like to know your recommendation.

[@toddlerscanread]

Hey there- great question. You can honestly do it whichever way you prefer and it's probably more of a parenting decision than a reading one. And if you do want to teach them to read in BOTH languages at once, then I believe that kids are sponges and will learn whatever we teach them. However, most of the families who take my courses choose to focus on teaching READING in one language first (while still SPEAKING both.) Then, they can always use the reading skills they gained with the first language to help them read the next language after.

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My kiddo is bilingual, Spanish and English, we have moved around so much, but now we're back at a Spanish speaking country and we have decided to start teaching him to read English. He is learning bowels in Spanish at school, but they don't seem to be doing great. We speak English at home mostly so we'll go with that.

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Thank you so much

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Thank you, but how do you know which one to continent?

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Where did you get those lovely letter cards? I love that they are solid, simple and don’t have pictures.

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I had them custom made and offer them on my site! toddlersread.myshopify.com/collections/website-flashcards

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The way You teach a child is the same way You teach a adult to read? Hi Spencer I'm from Angola🇦🇴 and your experience in teaching is being helpful for me. I'm waiting for your answer🙂 Wish You the best

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Hi there, the steps would be very similar.

[@matthewdigiordano1476]

Hoping for clarification, I couldn't really hear the difference between the o and u when you went through them in your video. I'm very clear on the u sound that you said, but hoping for clarification on the o sound. Maybe you can drop a couple words here in the comment that illustrate the sound so that I can catch on? Much appreciated, I love your videos and I'm excited to teach my baby to read

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Do you have a program? That can be purchased?

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I do! I have 3 online courses www.toddlersread.com/courses?

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Has anyone in the UK found some cards like these that are super clear to read?

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At what age can I start doing this with my toddler ?

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I already started by teaching my son the long vowel sounds and then began adding in the short vowel sounds, resulting in each of the vowels having 2 sounds to remember before he's began to read. He repeats the long vowel sounds a lot more consistently. I'm concerned that I've set him up for confusion..

[@doinggreat974]

My baby just turned 18months. I wanted to start with alphabets but I m confused with whether to teach with letter sound or letter name first. M little confused, in my opinion I think of starting with letter names first and then when she grows 2.5 years I will make her learn letter sound then. Will it b appropriate? Please guide.

[@toddlerscanread]

So it is up to you- but I start with sounds because that is what they will need to read. They do need to learn the letter names eventually. I have more examples of how to get started with sounds in my free training if you're interested! www.toddlersread.com/free-workshop?

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After teaching vowels (short then long) do you then teach the rest of the alphabet. I’m so lost thinking where I need to start first because my child recognizes letters and some sounds at this point.

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I recommend teaching the sounds from easiest to hardest (and this will vary from kid to kid)- so you don't have to teach them in a specific order! You can even start with consonants if that feels easier

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I have a quetion, so when well will teach them the letter. Or we will not teach them letter, because I see that when I tauch them the letter first and phonics later, when I asked them about the letters, all of them said the phonics and forgot what is the letter. Tks so much for reading my confusing.

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They need to know the letter names eventually. I like to start with sounds because that’s what they need to read.

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@@toddlerscanread so after teaching them the sound and they can read basically, we will teach them the letter after that right?

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Should I teach my kids the vowel sounds first? Then the rest of the letters sounds?

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I was praying you were British. The English accent pronounces things differently. English spoken in England sounds distinctively different than the North American accent. I believe there a difference for those in New York compared to those in Texas. You channel is appreciated. Thank you.

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My child is 4.5 Knows about phonics But don't read even fog I use the method f o g She tells all words individually but can't pronounce them collectively to form a word..I am much worried.plz anyone help me plzzzs

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My main focus is on helping parents teach their little ones, since I think they make the best teachers for their kids :)

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