The child knows many objects by name, such as ant, box, ball, jam, or queen. We are getting ready to move the child from the object word box to the animal word fox , after we have also had him learn that fox and box sound alike. He knows the alphabet, so he knows that the words have different beginning letters. Soon the child can read The Fox on the Box . We add a picture clue of the goat going up the mountain.
Some words are difficult to be associated with an animal or object words like the and went.
Constant practice places those line squiggles as words in the child's mind. We increase the child's vocabulary with other rhyming or rhyming family words, adding a coat and a boat into the story. Up went the goat. The goat saw a coat. The coat was too big for the goat.