The routine 🌈
- Warm up with Set 0 for 60 seconds. She says the sound, not the letter name.
- Then one word set, about 12 cards. Don't mix sets.
- She taps each sound left to right, then sweeps her finger under the word and says it fast.
- Stop at 5 minutes, even if it's going well. Daily beats long.
Then pick one word set (4 min)
🍎 1. Short vowels 45 cards 🐟 2. Digraphs 45 cards 🐸 3. Beginning blends 45 cards 🐫 4. Ending blends 36 cards 🪁 5. Silent e 36 cards 👾 6. Nonsense words 54 cards 💜 7. Heart words 36 cards
When she gets one wrong
Don't say the word for her, and don't just say "sound it out" again. Find the sound she is missing and go back to that single sound. Get the sound on its own, then re-blend the word from the start.
If she misses it twice: you read it, she repeats it, set it aside, move on. The app does this for you: a tricky card comes back once at the end, then it is set aside.