| Subject: Jolly Phonics actions for the letter sounds |
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Windy TONG
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Date Posted: 00:12:03 09/27/07 Thu
I find that the Jolly Phonics actions for the letter sounds are very useful for the younger children I have been working with. The actions help them remember the sounds. Even they forget some of the sounds, the actions act as the clues to help them recall. Since I am working with children with dyslexia from age 6 to 14, the younger kids aged from 6 to 9 are more keen on the actions.
However, I still need to modify some of the actions for my students. For instance ¡§/t/ for moving two fingers as if tiptoeing and say /t/t/t/¡¨, ¡§/r/ for moving the fingers from up to down as if it is raining and say /r/r/r/¡¨, /p/ for flip the hand over and over as if frying pancakes, and say /p/p/p/.
For the older children, they think that the movements are too babyish. They are more reluctant to participate even though the actions help them remember the sounds better. They just look at the teacher to do the actions and say the sounds but they do not participate. Thus I cannot use all the actions/ movements from Jolly Phonics with older children. Then I use a lot of pictures they know to help their visual memory and remembering the sounds. However, I do think kinesthetic memory is very important. Thus I ask those children to think of words and actions themselves. In such case, they are more willing to participate as those actions are their ownership and success.
In fact, I have a student who is 11 years ago and loves cars very much. He knows a lot of names and models of cars. Thus with the pictures and the names of the cars, he is cooperative and remember the sounds better than forcing him to follow the actions. For instance, /b/ for ¡§Benz¡¨, /f/ for ¡¥Ferrari¡¦, /j/ for ¡§Jaguar¡¨, /l/ for ¡§Lamborghini¡¨, /m/ for ¡§Mercedes¡¨, /p/ for ¡§Porsche ,/t/ for ¡§Toyota, /v/ for ¡§Volkswagen¡¨, etc.
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