Animal Sounds: Idea #120

As your student begins to read more difficult words, it is good to have some tricks up your sleeve to help them out. Every child has learned the song Old MacDonald Had a Farm and knows the sounds that animals make. Try using animal sounds to help them read.

For example, if your student is trying to read the word neighbor, you might say, "What sound does a horse make?" The student answers "Neigh", and then proceeds to sound out the rest of the letter sounds in the word neighbor.

Here are some more examples of words that have animal sounds:

A horse says NEIGH as in:
neighbor
neighborhood

A cow says MOO as in:
mood
moon
moose
move
movie

A sheep says BAA as in:
back
bad
bag
bam
ban
basket
bat

A cat says PURR as in:
perfect
pearl
purse
purple
perm
purpose

An owl says WHO as in: 
who
whom
whose
hoot
hoop

A crow says CAW as in: 
cob
coffee
coffin
call
calm
come
cop
car
cost
cot
  
I am sure you can think of even more than the words found on this list. Have fun!