Maverick
"Stick to decoding grapheme by grapheme-all through-the word".
So how do u decode 'all through the word' have, gave
and thought through?
Sops
Making decodable little books based on your child's interests seems like a great idea to me, if u have the time. I have already said that the Learning to Read page on my website www.EnglishSpellingProblems.co.uk has plenty of, but here are the regularly spelt ones among the 300 most used English words:
a, am, an, and, as, at, back, bad, can, cat, dad, gran, had, has, hat, man, ran, sat, than, that, that?s, rabbit, began, granddad, animals, dragon,
bed, best, better, eggs, end, fell, get, help, her, let, let?s, new, next, red, tell, them, then, very, well, went, when, yes,
big, did, fish, him, his, if, in, is, it, it?s, its, king, little, miss, still, thing, things, think, this, which, will, wind, wish, with, children, didn?t, different,
box, dog, fox, from, got, hot, long, lots, not, of, off, on, stop, top, across, along, floppy, stopped,
but, duck, fun, just, much, mum, must, run, sun, under, up, us, jumped, suddenly,
been, feet, green, keep, need, queen, see, sleep, three, tree, trees,
each, eat, please, sea, tea, came,
gave, made, make, place, take, baby, even, here, these, we?re,
I, inside, I?ve, like, liked, time, while, home, over, clothes, go, going, no, so, use,
car, dark, hard, park, garden, birds, first, girl, before, door, for, horse, more, morning, or, food, room, school, soon, too, our, out, found, house, mouse, round, shouted, about, around,
away, day, may, play, say, way, they, by, fly, my, why, night, right, air, their, cried, again, because, saw,
boat, boy,