One of my three year old twins has a fascination with letters
and words. One evening or night to be more precise about 6
months ago, after a very long reading fest, he wanted me to read
a really long book. I was struggling to keep my eyes open and
this was book number 10. It was getting late so I said to him
‘we can read it tomorrow’. He got really frustrated and said,
“mummy I want to know the book, you can read but I don’t know
how to. I want to read’. I asked him if he wanted me to help him
learn to read and he said yes. So we have been trying to learn
to read. This week I stumbled across the Ministry of Letters on
Twitter which has really excited him. The Ministry of Letters is
a web site based around the sounds of the letters of the English
alaphabet. The letters are on a mission creating all the words
you see. some nice features of the site are: Read the rest of
this entry Living in Turkey with bilingual English and Turkish
kids and being an English teacher, I am often asked for websites
to help young l