For the past couple of weeks, Lyra and I have been working on some reading lessons. Right now, we're still in the early stages of learning the sounds and then stringing sounds together to make words.
The book that I'm using starts with some of the easy sounds first: mmmmm, sssssss, rrrrrrr, t (which you have to say fast), eeeeee.
A couple of days ago, they introduced the "th" sound as in that or this. So, not the breathy, thhhhhhh of thing. No, the buzzing thhhhh of that.
I mentioned earlier that Lyra has not yet pronouced 'th'. She'll say: Somesing, dat, noffing, but not "th".
So, a lot of our time is spent on just learning how to pronounce that buzzing thhhhh. She tries so hard it comes out: blghblghblhg, zzzzzzzzzz, or dddddd.
Imagine her sounding out TH-A-T; blghblghblghlbhg - aaaaaaaa - t.
"Lyra, say thththtaaaat." "zzzzzzzzat"
What's the word? "zat".
Close enough.
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I had to go to speech therapy in 5th grade to learn to say "th" properly (and I still don't, and have to check and double check words when I am teaching phonetics).
Isn't it exciting to see the reading start? That's so cool!
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