"D", Dog, /D/

Some of the cards in Kyle's phonics card pack focus on digraphs (two letters that make one sound), so I'll go over them with him even though I totally know he's not quite there yet. It doesn't hurt to introduce new sounds to him right? For example, the "ck" card goes as follows: /ck/, sock. So while we were going over the /d/ sound yesterday morning, as in "D", duck, /d/, I also showed Kyle the /ck/ card and said "d", duck, /d/, "d", duck, /d/, /ck/, duck, /ck/, duck so that he is exposed to both the initial and ending sounds. When "y" comes at the end of a word, it often sounds like a vowel: /i/ as in cry, or /e/ as in baby. Kyle's card pack has a card for that too, so when I went over "d", daddy, /d/, I also showed Kyle the /y/ as a vowel card and said "d", daddy, /d/, "d", daddy, /d/, /e/, daddy, /e/, daddy. It sounds complicated, but it'ssssssssss ssssssssssssNOT ;)