🌱 Funny Phonics is wonky, wordplay fun geared to 2-5 years AND fun for ALL. Just 10 minutes a day builds a lifetime of learning.   IMPORTANT  Parents and caregivers can help to grow readers from birth when they play with words and sounds in fun and engaging ways.  Let's show little ones how much fun it is to play with words.  *Sometimes draw attention to the S/ and A/ sounds that are in the episode and sometimes refrain from doing so and just have fun! 🌱 Resources: Sadie the Slimy Slug by Nancy Martin, Say Hello Like This by Mary Murphy PHONICS: The understanding that there is a predictable relationship between phonemes (the sounds of the spoken language) and graphemes (the letters and spellings that represent those sounds in written language) - -Bonnie Armbruster. Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read, National Institute of Literacy. PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS: Is the ability to hear and play with the smaller sounds in words. LETTER KNOWLEDGE: Knowing that each letter has different sounds and names. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/small-talk-baby-podcast/message