Able A Teaches How to Make Words
There in the woods in his wigwam Able A made some pictures on an animal skin, saying "these pictures mean 'Mo sat on a hat'". He then put writing under it and explained "the letters under the pictures say the same thing, but the letters stand for sounds. So to read words, you have to put all the sounds together. It is called sounding out". The Slowtalker showed them how to say the sounds slowly, and together they read the words.
Able A then started making more pictures on a second animal skin. Together they sounded the words out: "M-o h-a-s a h-a-t." Ti and Mo were very excited now that they understood how to use sounds to read and write words. Soon Ti and Mo were sounding out many words and writing them using the letters they knew. They stayed so long that it grew very late, and Able A invited them to stay the night.
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