Well I would avoid my father’s meathod if I were you. It did not work. I am now a teacher, and the task you describe got me thinking. It would be tempting to t

Well I would avoid my father’s meathod if I were you. It did not work. I am now a teacher, and the task you describe got me thinking. It would be tempting to teach the association of letters with their related visual patterns of dash/dots. However, a 10 year old might do better if they learned the sound-forms of the letters as discrete entities, in the same way that they leaned the shape-form of the alphabet.