making connections!

We have been making connections between our reading strategies (sound power, picture power and sight word power) and all of our work and play. It's important we support children in transferring these skills with growing independence. For example, we can tap, blend and build words during Fundations and writing workshop. Our use of meaningful visuals supports transfer across workshops and content areas. 

Fundations

This week we continued our work tapping and listening for the sounds in words with three phonemes and words that rhyme. We used our magnet boards to build words with the same ending sounds and practiced changing one letter to make a different word.

When asked to change mat to fat, Lily tapped the word, listening for the change in beginning sound and carefully checking her work. You can watch and listen to Lily tap the sounds in the word fat in the video link below. We will continue to tap and build words, playing with language and practicing essential phonological skills. 

Lily taps, listens, and blends!

Morning Choice

I introduced a little Word Family Book as a home for all of our at words. The children used their picture power and sound power to write the missing beginning sound on each page. At the end of the book they recorded at words they know.

Morning Meeting

We then used the words hat and cat to build a sentence; The hat is on the cat. We added the sight words the and on to our sight word rings and used picture power to draw a picture to match the sentence. When building a sentence children are developing their understanding of the structure of a sentence; spaces between words, an upper case letter at the beginning, and punctuation at the end. 

Academic Choice

During Academic Choice if you choose small building you have to add a label to your saved structure. Emerson built a house and used his sound power to stretch out each label, listening for the sounds he heard and writing the corresponding letters. After sharing his work his peers noticed his careful building and use of sound power to add labels!