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Date Posted:09:43:48 06/26/08 Thu
I've been asked to share an activity I did from module 4.
This activity uses hoops to help children when they are practising blending sounds. You use 3 or 4 hoops depending on whether you are blending words with 2 or 3 sounds. The hoops are layed on the floor. To practice the word 'at' the child jumps into the first hoop and says the sound /a/, then jumps into the second hoop and says the sound /t/. Finally they jump into the last hoop and say the whole word 'at'.
I loved this exercise and so did the children. It gave us the perfect excuse to go outside into the playground and the children loved the whole physicality of jumping into the hoops whilst saying the sounds. There were still problems with some sounds, for example, the sound “s” to which the children continued to add “uh”. However, it was easily corrected within the context of the activity and by the end of the activity all three children were saying “ssssssssssss” with relative ease. I feel that this was partly due to the fact that the children were so enthusiastic about the activity they would say whatever sound they had to, to be allowed to jump into the hoops. Following some advice given by the class teacher the activity was extended a little. The children were asked to think of another sound which could replace the initial sound to make a new word. They were then asked to change the middle sound to make a new word. The children again seemed to greatly enjoy this challenge. It also gave them the opportunity of independently producing a sound. Changing the middle sound (the vowel sound) however proved far more difficult for them than changing the initial (consonant) sound.
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