How young is too young to teach my child to read sight words/?
My child is four and has just entered preschool. The teacher told me that he would be learning letters and their sounds and begin to put a few letters together to make beginning sounds this year. He has known all his letters and sounds since he was 2 1/2. Next year, in Kindergarten, he will be learning sight words (an, the, but, in, ect.) Since he is so far ahead already, I was wondering if he was too young to start teaching him these already. Will he be bored if he learns to read earlier than some of the children in his classroom? Am I setting him up for a lifetime of unrealistic expectations?
Words without vowels?
Leaving out the VOWEL Y (more about how the letter Y usually IS a vowel below), you mostly have an unusual set of words known as "interjections" used to express emotion and/or imitate sounds (but they are still "words", and dictionaries treat them as such): brr grr psst pfft tsk** hmm mm-hmm ** This is the most unusual.IN fact, it was not really meant to be pronounced the way it looks, but was (like its British equivalent "tut") an attempt to imitate the "clicking" sort of sound people make (by rapidly pulling their tongue off the roof of their mouths) as they shake their head. But oddly people have taken to SAYING "tsk" [almost "tisk"] or "tut" instead when they see it in print. ______________ On Y (and sometimes W) as BOTH vowel & consonant -- For the umpteenth time -- Y is FREQUENTLY a vowel (that is, used to indicate a 'vowel sound'), more often than it marks a consonant sound! (In some languages Y is ONLY used for vowels.) The confusion is either from the fact that some elementary school teachers drilled "a,e,i,o,u" into kids' heads and missed the "and sometimes y" part... and/or that Y, unlike those five, SOMETIMES is used for consonant sounds. The fact that many of the examples people have given could substitute an i for the y (and historically, at times, some of them have!) should make this clear. By the way, some may answer this question by listing a WELSH word like "cwm". Not really. In Welsh, a stand-alone W may be used as a u-type vowel sound. ("Cwm" is pronounced like "coom".) In fact, even in English words W can be used as a vowel, though only in combination with other vowels. Again, it is a u-type vowel -- you can see the relationship from pairs like these (where the w and u represent exactly the same sound): law/laud, few/feud, how/hound
My two years kid does not imitate what we say to him?
Lack of eye contact is one symptom of Autism. My son was 2 years old, but not talking full sentences either and the words he did say were prompted. At three years old he was diagnosed with Autism and put into therapy. He's now fully verbal. For early intervention phone numbers call your local Social Services Dept. They should know the number or at least who to call. You should be able to find that number in the phone book. If your child has more than one or two symptoms on this list, talk to early intervention about perhaps getting tested for Autism. Chances are your child doesn't have it, but if he does the sooner therapy is started the better the child is helped. It's because of Early Intervention that my son was tested. At first he was seen as normally developing, but later on more and more the Autism showed up. Not every child has all the symptoms of Autism, some will have only a few. 1) poor or no eye contact 2)often very little verbal activity 3)tip toe walks 4)attaches to odd objects (my son would pick up a string or popbottle cap from the floor and carry it in his hand for hours) 5) repeating an activity over and over again (my son had an animated bank and would sit for hours putting in coins to watch the motion until the batteries wore out.) 6)knows no fear (My son will still dash out in the road if I don't watch him. He's now 11.) 7) May love to watch things spin around or love to spin himself around 8)insensitivity to pain (my son could fall and scrap his knee, yet seem not to feel it at all.) 9)doesn't like to be touched 10) seems to be in constant motion a lot like he can't stay still. 11)giggling or laughing at odd times. (For instance..someone saying their pet just died...yet the child breaks out in laughter) 12)child may limit eating to only certain foods (my son will only eat grilled cheese sandwiches, Ramen noodles, or pizza. But if it's not exactly the way he likes it..he won't eat it. It's having to do with a sensory issue, not being a picky eater) 13) children with autism will often be hyper sensitive to sight, sound,touches,smells, anything sensory (My son would wander through the clothing isle touching all the clothes, especially the soft ones) 14)may have difficultly interacting with others
How would i put this into my own words?
I couldn't understand half of that, but type it out the way YOU would say it.
Words HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
-analogy: a pair of words with a aforementioned relation (similarities, differences, etc.) -climax: the "high point" of a story or tale. -exposition: to be exposed or explained to an audience, such as a product or good -foreshadow: to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure -hyperbole: obvious and/or intentional exaggeration -imagery: the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively; figurative descriptions or illustrations -metaphor: a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance; something used to represent something else, with no literal relation -onomatopoeia: the formation or use of words (such as buzz or murmur) that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to -simile: a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared -assonance: rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words -mood: a certain disposition expressed at a specific time or place -dynamic: a basic or dynamic force, esp. one that motivates, affects development or stability, etc. -round: which one? the musical one is when one group of people split into separate groups and begin singing a pre-selected song at different points in time, but not the song itself; also known as a cannon -oxymoron: A rhetorical device in which two seemingly contradictory words are used together for effect last 3, not sure good luck!
How can i teach my 21 month old new words?
This is such a great age for learning new words! One neat thing to start doing is to go beyond simple nouns and start using verbs and discussing relationships. Put water in a cup and pour it out. "Water all gone!" Then fill the cup back up. "More water!" Give the cup to your baby and see what she (or he) does--probably pour it out--and say, "All gone!" again. "Hot" and "cold" are some of the first adjectives that kids will learn. You can do this by warning about things that are hot, and by feeling things from the freezer that are cold. Show the burner on the stove and say "hot" in a firm voice. Have your baby feel something that is hot (but not burning) and say "hot" again. Then, point to a picture of a fire in a magazine and say "hot" and "fire". The baby will connect the known idea "hot" with the "fire". Teach cold in the same way. This is also the age to start teaching big/little concepts. My little one loves to call things "baby" and "mommy"--for example, when he sees a little truck, it's a "baby truck" and a big truck is a "mommy truck". I'll often repeat what he says and then add, "baby truck is little" just to bridge what he is saying to more regular speech. When your baby points to something she recognizes--for example, a cow--build on that by saying something that the cow is or does. For instance, "The cow says moo!" Or "The cow is eating grass." Colors work well for this too. The key idea is that you're building from what your baby knows and adding to that network. This is powerful learning. I was shocked when my daycare provider said that my son knew his colors at 23 months. I never sat down to teach them to him, just used them in everyday speech. And don't be afraid to use precise words with your baby. My son loves helicopters. He has trouble saying the word, but that's part of the fun. Don't oversimplify. Use your full range of vocabulary, slowing down and relating new words to known words as much as you can. Enjoy the toddler time! It's wonderful!
There’s no way of knowing the answer to this. The soft tissue that makes up the throats of animals is always long-since deteriorated in Mesozoic dinosaurs, both avian and not. Throat bones might be preserved in exceptional circumstances, but they’re small and easily lost, especially as they tend to float in the body, not attached to the vertebrae. I count myself lucky that we have sabertooth throat bones to study, and they’re only 10,000 years old (sabertooths, Smilodon at least, could roar, thank goodness).Mockingbirds and other modern dinosaurs are skilled mimics; I would not be surprised in some Mesozoic species were as well. Perhaps these could mimic human speech, though it’s unlikely they would understand it. But again, I have no idea.
The repetition of initial consonant sounds is called ?
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Trying to learn to speak in a british accent, but some words sound Australian. What can I do to stay british?
In addition to the movies that you're watching, pick a couple of newscasts on TV, radio and the internet that broadcast regularly (daily, weekly). Choose a few models that you know are British and whose accents are similar and that you wouldn't mind sounding like. By picking just a few models to copy, you'll give your ear a consistent base of sounds to reach for. By choosing a weekly or daily broadcast, you'll have enough continuous opportunities to hear those models. This will somewhat mimick the way that natives learn a language as kids. They typically have a few models, that are usu close in dialect (immediate family) as well as a larger base of models that may present a greater variety of dialects (extended family, larger community)