Early readers will often attempt several sounding-outs of a word, out loud, one of them correct, and fail to recognize that they have just spoken aloud a word t

Early readers will often attempt several sounding-outs of a word, out loud, one of them correct, and fail to recognize that they have just spoken aloud a word that they know. Sometimes they’ll do it when it’s the only attempt they make. They just won’t process the sound the same when they’re sounding the word out, as they do when they say or hear the word naturally. “Hooking up” those two parts of the brain, if you will, is part of how you get them to be good at sounding out words (aside from memorizing the various sounds letters and letter-combos might make) and usually just comes to them as they practice more.