Simply Clap out while saying the words, “Queen keep warm” with your student.

It is best to use a mirror with your student to modeling the letter sound. This is to better ensure correct mouth formation. Focus on the dominant forming aspects for the sound, Placing your hand upon your throat enables you to feel if the sound is a vibrating one or not.

The ‘kw’ sound is a blended sound of ‘k’ with ‘w’.

The hard ‘k’ sound comes from air pushing through a tightening and relaxing throat - tongue stays down.

The throat stays still and calm with this sound.

The ‘w’ sound comes from pursed lips like that of a tight kiss and then releasing.

The throat vibrates with this sound.

(w/Alphabet Banner)

Parent/instructor first model pointing to by touching each letter as the song is being sung. This is a fun way of using rhythm to strengthen retaining the names of the letters while building an understanding of Alphabetical Order concept as well. Be sure to clarify each time by saying, “Let’s sing the names of the letters in alphabetical order.” After a while, when the student is able, he/she then becomes the pointer to each letter as they are being sung.

Role-playing enables one to feel the shape of each letter in one’s own body. Identifying to how the letter looks and emotionally feels is yet, another way for stimulating long-term memory retainment.

[Be sure to refer to the People Line Banner for directional understanding while pretending to be the letters.]

TIPS:

• The Capital Letter:

  looks round because of her robe. She gathers up the excess robe material around her feet and throws it down behind her! [Say sound prompt.]

• The Small Letter:

  is much smaller than her Mom and yet, has the same size robe which is much larger than ‘queen-size”. So, she sits down pushes it behind her. It hangs way down below the line. Sometimes the robe looks curved up towards the back; that i just when her friend Uu is helping to pick it up. [Say sound prompt.]