Initial sound table
An initial sound table is a table, list or chart which shows the initial sound letter of a word together with its picture (pictured words). The initial sound table can assist students to recognise initial sounds and to get first reading and writing skills. In 1658 John Amos Comenius created an initial sound table in Orbis Pictus (a picture book intended for children). "Alternative names:" initial sound list, initial sound chart, initial sound alphabet, alphabet chart, alphabet picture chart Writing to read. In the German-speaking countries, language experience is often based on children's writing of  stories that involves invented spellings (e.g. with the help of an "initial sound table" picturing words that start with a specific sound). The Swiss teacher Jürgen Reichen (progressive education) founded this "writing to read" method 1982. The method combines two basic features of in favour of "phonics" (unduly equated with "direct instruction", stepwise teaching, etc.). According to this approach children should be encouraged to "write words as they pronounce them" with the help of an "initial sound list" of pictured words. Constructing words in this way is supposed to help them to understand the basic relationship between spoken and written  language. Johann Amos Comenius already added 1658 an initial-sound-table to his „Orbis sensualium pictus“. Initial sound keyboard. There are software for children which has a multimedial "initial sound keyboard" for text input (virtual keyboard). Several hardware keyboards for kids also have "initial sound pictures" on its keys. With "initial sound stickers" and a standard computer keyboard you can create your own initial sound keyboard.app0l Initial sound examples. There are initial sounds, medial sounds and final sounds.