Direct Ultra Explicit Hyper Systematic Linguistic Instruction in Reading during the Pre-Poetic Stage
Oh!!!!
Repeat after me.
[Do not look at the pictures.]
Oh. Oh? Oh… Oh!
👀 🧐 🥴 😝
[Lips round and relaxed, tongue front + tense, eyes on oh, oh, oh—-ho ho ho Johnny’s reversed the letters my my my]
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Repeat, Children. Think of your dentist.
[Look at the letters, not the pictures.]
Ah:) Ah…. Aaahhh!
😊 🥱 🫣
[Open your mouth wide, drop your jaw, vocal cords vibrating. Feel the h escape in a puff of air]
[Johnny said ha ha ha hhhaaaa mental note refer Johnny SLD likely]
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Repeat. Now this is important.
It’s cheating to look at the pictures. Yes, ch eeeeeee t t ttt tuttuttut eeeennggg
You know what cheating is? Getting help is cheating. Cheeeeeee cheeee cheeeeting
Hmm… Hmm? Hmmmmm
😛 🤔 🥴
[See? You don’t need the picture. Good job.]
[Lips together, air escaping through your nostrils, mmmmm, vocal cords vibrating, tongue relaxed]
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Repeat.
Sh. Sh sh sh! Shhhhh..
🤫 🤐 🤨
[Lips rounded, tense, tongue 👅 tense and front, air stream blocked, aperture at alveolar ridge, vocal cords still, ]
[This is what we use to make poems, boys and girls, sounds are fun, aren’t they]
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Experts in language emergence during infancy describe behaviors that younger children can draw on as their poetry touchstone:1
https://raisingchildren.net.au/babies/development/language-development/language-3-12-months#expressing-baby-language-development-nav-title