While Adrian has been able to correctly identify the first sound of the word for a while now; only a few months before his fourth birthday, he started to be able to isolate the ending and the middle sound. To practice the middle sound identification, Julia made this DIY Reading Wheel for Adrian to practice literacy as well as fine-motor skills, while he had to find and pinch the clothespins with the missing middle letter.
Julia drew three-letter objects and wrote the corresponding words with the middle letter missing.
Adrian had to figure out the missing sound and find the corresponding letter among clothespins.
"cAt, sUn, mAp, fLy, oNe, sKy, nUt, rUg."
This DIY wheel is similar to CVC Word Cards and clothespins (buy here) where a child has to match the letter-clothespin to the corresponding letter on the cards.
You can read about Adrian using these cards and clothespins at 3 years-old here "Montessori CVC Picture Words & Clothespins (💗Pink Series 🎥 Early 📖 Reading 101)."
For more on our Language curriculum and phonetical order sets, read here the introductory post: "Montessori Phonetical Order of presenting ABCs Alphabet letters." For individual letters, read here our "🔠 Letter Series (Montessori Language)" post. For beginning blending, see here "💙 BLUE Series /St/ Blending (Montessori 101 Language)."
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