Here are some more things we did with short o:
1. We re-matched the words and pictures. The 2nd time he re-matched pictures and words, I helped. But after that, I expected him to do it with minimal help from me.
3. We played Concentration or Memory Match
The words are on the left side and the pictures on the right side. The pictures also have the word written in small print to make this game self-checking.
A match!
Just a side note: I used this green short o memory match set when I taught public school. I also have another set exactly like this one that is printed on orange construction paper. That way, I could place both sets in the same Ziploc bag at a center. If I had 6 students playing short o memory match at the same time, 3 students could easily pull and play with the green set, while the other 3 students could play with the orange set. I used this color system a lot with small group games to make it easy to identify and divide up sets.
4. We built words with Legos.
I organized the words in the sort (adding hog) so that he only had to change one letter at a time to make each new word. We first built dog together. I asked, “Can you change one letter in dog to make dot?” This is a great phonemic awareness skill (a part of phonological awareness) because he had to listen for the individual sounds in each word to figure out how to spell the new word.
5. We went on a short o Word Hunt.
He read I Can Hop from readinga-z.com (I don’t currently have a membership, but the books are downloaded on my computer) and found and colored all the OT and OP words.
Here are the words I pulled out before reading the text.
I remembered as a child sometimes coloring in all the o‘s on the church bulletin during the sermon, so instead of highlighting the words, I thought he’d like to color in the o‘s (OT words in yellow and OP words in pink). This was also a great way to continue working on his fine motor skills; which he has yet to master.
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~Becky
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