Roadmap

The major ongoing work right now for Letters Practice is in authoring the copy and 3D animations for our lesson sequence. Right now we have five lessons in active rotation, covering the following topics:

• Letters make sounds.
• Letters work together in specific ways to make specific sounds (digraphs: sh, th, ng, etc).
• Vowels work with the letter e in a weird way to make an alternative sound (Tim–time, cop–cope, etc).
• Vowels also like to make that sound when they close out a word (go, so, hi, we, she, etc).
• Sometimes letters misbehave, and specific words are weird.

The phonetic skills spanned by these lessons are enough to graduate someone into the status and identity of a beginning reader.

Upcoming lessons will cover topics like:

• Vowel teams (more digraphs, including the diphthongs ow and oy).
• R-controlled and L-controlled vowels (car, for, and friends).
• Silent letter patterns (knife, write, comb).
• And others!

Phonetic analytics and categorization work here is largely complete. What remains is weighing relative priorities for optimal sequencing, and crafting storyboards for the letters themselves, so they introduce each idea in a way that makes good sense relative to what learners already know.