Topic > by Jennings, Caldwell, and Lerner (2010). Children need to know how letter combinations make sounds. For example ck says k as in clock. I would teach it through wordplay. I would also like to show them that they can change the letters to create new words and words like cat in the hat. Jennings, Caldwell, and Lerner (2010) went on to say that it is also effective to read a book with decodable words and manipulate the letters in the words to create other words (p...