In "TEACH MY PRESCHOOLER HOW TO READ BOOK 3 coloring book you are teaching two-three or four letter blended consonant diagraph sounds. Your child will learn to read and write 38 of the most common blended consonant sounds: ch, sh, th, wh, ai, ay, ea, ee, ie, oe, oa, ue, igh, ow, ou, er, ang, kn, wr, mb, dge, oo, oy, oi, or, ar, ear, ir, ur, aw, au, ck, ph, ti, ey, ew, ough, ui. Preschool children learn through play. Give your child a letter sound picture to color. Point to and say the large upper page letter sound. Point to each picture and say the picture name, while extending the first letter sound of the picture; as in ("ch" "o-p") or ("ch" "i-p-s"). Point to the large upper page letter sound and ask your child, "What letter sound is this?" Sound out the page letter sound, then sound out each lowercase letter sound in the word (example: "ch" then "o" and "p"); ask your child to fill in the underlined letters to the word. Trace the letter sound with your finger and ask your child to trace and say the letter sound. Teaching your preschool child to read is as easy as giving your child a page to color. In "TEACH MY PRESCHOOLER HOW TO READ BOOK 1 - PHONICS abc coloring book your child learned the 26 letter sounds of the English Alphabet and should be able to phonetically sound out and write the lower-case letter sounds. In "TEACH MY PRESCHOOLER HOW TO READ BOOK 2 - Vowels and Sight Words coloring book, your child learns the 5 short and long sound of vowels and the pre-Primer Sight Words: a, and, away, big, blue, can, come, down, find, for, funny, go, help, here, I, in, is, it, jump, little, look, make, me, my, not, one, play, red, run, said, see, the, three, to, two, up, we, where, yellow, you. The 21 consonant Alphabet sounds, 5 vowels and 38 Blended Consonant sounds make up a large percentage of the English language.