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, Dr. Francine Johnston. I colored the pictures and laminated them in my pre-kid days of teaching school.
First, I set up my head pictures, modeling how I listened for the vowel sound in each word. I set out the only words we used: cat & dog.
Then, ALuv sorted the rest of the pictures. I was amazed at how he did this with very few mistakes!
I chose this activity because I knew I could squeeze it in with our other school work for that afternoon. But if I had wanted to extend it, I could have had him write down 5 short a and 5 short o words on a recording sheet. This extension could also be used as independent work (and I might just do that in the next day or so!!). All of my pictures are self-checking, as the word is written on the back. By the way, asking kids to phonetically write words is another GREAT way to practice some phonemic awareness.
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~Becky
Great post as well.
Great post as usual.
Well, aren’t you sweet! I was trying to figure out the ages of your children by looking through your blog posts…I really like the list of books you posted today. I don’t have any readers in my house that advanced, but will save that list for later! 🙂