Literacy and phonics, ideas and advice needed!
I've a just about four year old who has a strong interest in reading, letters, rhyme, etc. We have been looking at individual letter sounds and have covered much of the alphabet, she probably knows 20 letter sounds very reliably, long and short vowels etc. She can identify initial sounds in words and is starting to sound out whole words but this isnt so reliable.
Most of the stuff weve done has been via her other interests or through phonics games.
I'm now a bit stuck though. I am not a teacher, I have just played by ear this far, but the natural progression seems to me to be to start reading and sounding out simple words like cat, dog, etc in simple books and via games. We haven't looked at any complex sounds like ai, ea etc because that seems too complex at present, I think that shoukd probably come later when she has started reading simple words but im not sure.
What would you do next? In terms of general direction and specific activities?
Apologies for the random full stops. Phone buttons too small, thumbs too big.
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