Learning to read and write can be FUN!
Before moving on to short o word families, I did a simple sort with ALuv, comparing the vowel sounds in some short a and short o words. This was a phonemic awareness activity because print was not involved and I was asking him to isolate the vowel sound in each word as he sorted them. It took about 7-10 minutes to implement. These pictures came from the back of Words Their Way and were drawn by one of my professors, {Read More}
Recently, ALuv and I did a syllable sort. It had been a long time since we had talked about syllables and I felt fairly certain that he could count and identify syllables in a word, an important skill for emergent readers. I decided to put a new spin on the concept, though. My goal was for him to discover from this activity that longer words typically have more syllables and more letters. I also wanted to help him hear how the longer/shorter words {Read More}
After ALuv and I had studied –at, -an, and –ad, we went on to –ap and –ag with the picture sorts from Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Letter Name-Alphabetic Spellers. Here are some of the activities we did with the words and pictures: I introduced the words and pictures like I did with this lesson We highlighted the different chunks: AP in yellow and AG in pink ( See the Word Study Notebook picture at the end of this {Read More}
Here are a few more ways in which we integrate literacy into our everyday life around this reading mama’s house. Literacy Toys-Many of these were bought as birthday or Christmas presents and are rotated out weekly to keep them “fresh”. Letter blocks: I got at Target in the $1 section. Puzzles: I bought these particular foam ABC puzzles at the $1 store several years ago and used them in my K classroom (now they have bite marks on them, brought {Read More}
iowa lottery One of the reasons I like Word Study so much is that it’s flexible. In my opinion, it beats doing inflexible workbook pages any day. Click here for some of the other reasons I like Word Study so much. Here are some more activities we did with the –an and -at word families. Just a side note: Word Study is meant to be a piece of the literacy puzzle. A big portion of the puzzle is real reading {Read More}
california lottery Here are a few more things ALuv and I did with the -at Word Family. These were not done all in one day; rather stretched out over a week. Timed Sorts. ALuv re-matched the words and pictures to review. He matched them again as I timed him. The third time, I asked him if he could do it even quicker to beat his own time. He did, but didn’t want to go for another round. We made a {Read More}
florida lottery Below are the templates from my post yesterday. Feel free to print them off to use them at home with your child, if (s)he is in the same stage as ALuv. By the way, ALuv is a beginner in the “Now I Know My ABCs” Stage; which is Stage 2. I will be looking through pictures and my “lesson plans” here in the next couple of days to post some of the things we did before getting to {Read More}
lottery Here is a recent activity ALuv and I did to review the short a families we’ve studied (off and on) since September. After recording all his answers, ALuv had to tally up how many real and silly words we made and compare the difference between the two (I love to integrate as much as possible). I will be posting some of the things we did as we worked on each word family, but I thought I’d start with what {Read More}
