 This is one way that I teach on putting sounds together to make words The first thing I do is I get some objects out and these are just random objects I find in my classroom, and I tell the kids what they are or have them tell me what they are This is a bug and everybody repeats bug dog dog deer deer Pig pig and then I tell them we're gonna play a game I'm going to give them the sounds of the word and they have to decide which word I am or which object I am thinking of so if I say I'm looking for the D ah g then the students will need to find which object and hopefully they will pick the word dog and we'll say that again D ah g I'm looking for the dog Then I will give him another one say I'm looking for the B. Uh G and the students this time We're a little bit eerie. Maybe they say we're looking for the pig not the B. Uh G So then I will stretch the word out or actually I'm going to smush the word together. I'm gonna say B. Uh G still a bit quicker B. Uh G Bug I'm looking for the bug. So it's kind of reversing what I'm doing I'm not kind of putting it those sounds together instead of stretching it out that hopefully we'll keep working with this as Well until we get all the objects I've also found that I sometimes will not put the objects out and I will actually give them a theme or a category that I'm looking for So today I'm going to look for and they're gonna look for fun things that begin with a or around food So I'm gonna say I'm looking for the air it I'm thinking about the carrot or the app Oh, I'm looking for an Apple so these are some ways that they can use objects or you use different categories to teach your kids and Putting sounds together to make words