A better variation of that game might go like this. We could write each letter on a separate card or piece of paper, vowels in one color, and consonants in another. Then we could say to the child, "Put together any two, or three, or four (or more) of these cards, and I will tell you what they say." If the child gave us bsrx, we could do our best to make those sounds. The child would begin to notice after a while that the only combinations of letters that made sounds that sounded
