📚 Curriculum

From Sound to Word

Reading begins with the ears. Three speech sounds — s, u, n — slide together one at a time, and suddenly they are no longer letters: they are "sun", a word the child can picture.

s u n Letters became something you can see
One sound per block
The sounds blend into "sun"
The child "reads" the word
the ears
hear the sounds long before the eyes see letters
s-u-n
three sounds sliding into one word
Year 2
is when the curriculum lets kids blend the sounds