For one, Lant says that many children learn to recognize and sound out letters as early as ages 4 and 5. "That's when phonetic learning usually begins," he says. But children are usually ages 6 to ...

Letters are introduced in a sequence that means ... words together is to point out that the word is a bit unusual and sound out the different sounds: for example, said has the simple ‘s ...

NARRATOR: Vowels are the letters you can sound out without closing your mouth. The red monster sounds out the vowels 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o' and 'u'. NARRATOR: Ah, eh, ii, ohh and uhh. Every word needs ...