How are words formed?

Words are made by putting together letters, just like you put together building blocks.

Each letter is like a single block that makes one sound. When you stack them, they make bigger sounds, and those become words. For example, the letter b makes a "b" sound, and the letter a makes an "a" sound. Put them together, and you get ba, which is how we say "ba" like a baby cow.

Sometimes one letter can make more than one sound, just like how your voice changes when you say different words. For example, the letter c sounds like a "k" in cat, but it sounds like an "s" in cent.

When we put letters together, they form words, and those words let us talk about everything, from our favorite toys to our bedtime stories!