In my previous blog, I had written about ways to introduce reading to your kids. In this part I talk about making your own flashcards to supplement your teaching effort.
Flashcards should be plain. So, the attractive colours and graphics don't distract the child. Normal font (Arial), in large size (18) and in colour red. Create a table in Microsoft word and put one letter per cell (partition). Take a colour print-out and then cut the letters out to separate them. You can stick each of them on same size card board or get each of them laminated separately, the way I do. For home use sticking on cardboard is good enough.
Flashcards can be used to associate sounds with the alphabet and also for a words building game. You can create flashcards of all the alphabets to teach them phonetically, but I suggest making flashcards in sets. For each set, take one vowel (a,e,i,o,u) and a set of consonants(b.c.d.f.g or non-vowels), to build three letter (CVC-consonant-vowel-consonant) words.
For example, first you choose the vowel, 'a'. Think of a list of words that you would like to build with 'a' in the middle. A few that I selected are: Bat, cat, sat, rat, fat, bat, bad, ban, bag. Now create a list of all the alphabets that you will require, and create flashcards of those. For the above words you will need: a, t, b, d, r, f, n, g.
Comment below if there are any doubts. Check my next post about flashcards for word building game.
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