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This is a critical idea to do full phonemic segmentation.

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One very simple way of teaching that is to use chips.

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Don't even bother with letters yet.

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Take a very simple word that has 2 sounds in it, like 8, and use 2 chips.

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If we just had 2 boxes, the child would go, "eigh...t."

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And then you would say, "I'm going to take it apart," and you ask the child to do it.

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"8. Eigh...t."

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That's called Say It and Move It.

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And if you then go to 3 sounds, you can use any vowel sound because you're not spelling.

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That's the advantage of this is they don't have to know the letters.

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And you can use some long vowel sounds like "leaf."

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They can go, "l..ea...f," without having to know how we actually spell it.

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It doesn't matter that it has 4 letters.

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It still has 3 sounds.

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And then, of course, we can make a transition from the chips to letters very easily.

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This time I've put 3 that are a different color to stand for different sounds.

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If we have the word "red," we can go, "r...e...d."

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And then we can say, "OK, what is this first sound?

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"How do you spell it?"

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And the child should be able to say, "ruh" and find the "R" and push the chip out of the way.

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"What's the next sound?"

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"Rrr...eh...eh...eh..."

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And they might need a little help with that, or you might give them that one.

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And the last sound is "re...duh."

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"Duh." "How do we spell that?"

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And we've shown how the sounds correspond to the letters.