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When showing the picture cards to a Nursery class, should the children say the sound or the word?
Both! Always say the sound, followed by the word, for example ‘h helicopter’.
This will encourage your children to make the link and help them hear the initial sound more easily.
You can watch this technique being modelled in the What’s in the box? ‘How to’ video in the Tuning into sounds area of the website.