🍎 Did you know that mouth muscles need to practice making sounds that are phonetically unique in each language? This comes from hearing the sounds and practicing them. This is why we can’t make the phonetic sounds in other languages because we haven’t had enough exposure.

This video shows how this looks teaching the mouth movements in English. tools4reading.com sells awesome cards to teach this. You can also use a mirror to show children how to place their tongue and teeth in the right place to make the sound.

Orthographic Mapping

Orthographic mapping is a mental process that helps children learn to read words by sight and spell them from memory. It involves connecting the sounds of words to the letters that represent them, and then associating those letter sounds with words in a person's oral vocabulary

Once a student reads a word 2-4 times the neurons in their brain will automize the word and recall it. [building sight words]

Once most of your words begin to live in the temporal lobe then your brain has the power to attend to reading comprehension (language comprehension).

Language Sounds:
Reading skills transfer in many languages; I.E Spanish and English. Spanish students do not have the backup system of knowing if words are real or not. They do not struggle in decoding but they do struggle with making sense of whether the words are real or not.

Language Sounds:

"Languages across the world have unique phonemic systems. For individuals learning English as a second language, it is common for the phonemic system of their first language to influence the production of sounds in English." and vice versa. You can look them all up here:

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association: https://www.asha.org/practice/multicultural/phono/