‘Motor skill’ is a process involving the coordination of muscles that work together when motions are carried out. There are 2 different kinds of motor skills in a child’s development – fine motor skills and gross motor skills. Continue Reading…
As introduced in my first article, Phonics is a type of word-recognition technique, whereby the word refers to the relationship between phonemes (word sounds) and graphemes (written symbols).
Phoneme: A single, distinct unit of sound used to distinguish one word from another. Phonemes are enclosed with slanted lines (/ /) to show the relationship between word sounds and the symbols that represent them.
(For example: In the words cat and rat, the letters ‘c’ and ‘r’ represent two distinct sounds. The phonemes /c/ and /r/ make up the only difference in the pronunciation of the two words.) Continue Reading…