Practicing to Mastery
Linda Farrell: When syllables are easy and onset/rime, blending onset/rime is not easy, what we need to do is make sure that we give enough practice so that that skill is practiced to mastery and we don’t move on, we don’t move away from practicing onset/rime until we’re confident that that’s mastery. Once Autumn is good and competent at onset/rime, we’ll start with blending phonemes. Then we’ll go back to onset/rime, will be our area where we’re comfortable, but we’re going to keep practicing that so that she has absolute mastery with onset/rime before we leave it behind. We will have left syllables behind by then. Those are just so automatic to her, she doesn’t need them anymore.
