ABSTRACT
The child should be able to read and write the letter sounds before we can be sure that they have really been learnt. Dictation can be started as soon as the first letters of the illustrated alphabet have been introduced. The task can be too demanding for the younger child and the teacher may decide to introduce the written work at a later stage, for example, when the child has learnt to recognise most letter sounds. Once the child can form the letters correctly, we want her to be able to write them from memory. We can dictate the letter sounds in random order or dictate a list of interesting words for which the child writes the first letter only. The task of learning to write letter sounds from dictation can also be divided into smaller learning steps.
