Monday, January 26, 2009

strategic reading

Y-2,3,4
Objectives: Know the sounds associated with each letter; Know words are made of letters; Blend sounds into words.
I display a picture card for a three-phoneme word, such as pig. Say the word for the picture, then say it sound by sound. Choose three students and give each student a letter card (p-i-g). Have the students say their letter name and make the sound for their letter. The students then arrange themselves in the correct order to make the word. Have the students say their sound for their letter. If order is not correct, have the class help them get in the right order. When order is correct, have students in the row blend the sounds to form the whole word. Then have the entire class blend the sounds into a word. Repeat with other 3-phoneme words.

3 comments:

Nancy said...

This activity could be used with upper elementary students. The students could cut out the letters themselves (from a newspaper or magazine article) and glue them together to form new words.
They could extend the activity by drawing pictures and matching the words with the picture.
Let students help each other with spelling and sounds to make each is completed correctly.

Rhonda said...

This could also be used with 2nd, 3rd, or 4th graders. Start with A say a word that starts with A. The next student says the A word plus a B word. The 3rd student says an A word plus a B word, plus a C word and so forth.

Kay said...

You could also adapt this activity to building correct word order in sentences by using word cards in place of the letter cards.