Beyond the Alphabet: Play into Reading Readiness | 7 Essential Skills to Raise a Strong Reader

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Learning letters and their sounds are important for children. But (and that is a very, very big BUT) there are 7 other areas that are EVEN MORE important for young children to learn.
In my book, Beyond the Alphabet: Play into Reading Readiness, I address how to teach children letters through play, what order to introduce letters for best results, and even how to teach children to read! But first, I share with you the 7 essential skills all children must learn:
⭐ 1. Rhyming: Rhyming involves hearing rhymes (in nursery rhymes, silly songs or Dr. Seuss books for example), recognizing rhymes (“Does cat rhyme with bat?”), and finally, making rhymes independently (“The dog jumped over the log!”).
⭐ 2. Word Awareness: Word awareness is understanding where a word begins and ends. This can be trickier than you might realize. Consider this: be is a word all on its own, as is the word begin, but be true is two words. Tricky!
⭐ 3. Syllable Awareness: Syllable awareness is the ability to hear how many sounds are in a single word.
⭐ 4. Sound Identification: Identifying the sounds in a word is an important skill for future reading and writing. Sound identification starts with identifying the first sound in a word, then the last sound, and finally, the middle sound, which is the most difficult.
⭐ 5. Sound Segmenting: Sound segmenting is about p-u-l-l-i-n-g words apart to hear each little sound.
⭐ 6. Sound Blending: Sound blending is the flip side of sound segmenting. It involves pushing sounds in a word together and blending sounds to hear (or read) full words.
⭐ 7. Deleting Sounds: Deleting sounds involves removing the first or last sound in a word. For example, saying the word cat, then saying the word again but deleting the first sound, which would result in at.