Week 7

5 year old girl in Kindegarden

Print Awareness

I showed her an ABC chart and asked her to tell me the letters that I point to. Then I asked her to point to the A in the word APPLE on the chart and B in the word BAT on the chart  then I asked her to point to the letter Z. Then I asked her to point out the first letter of the word under the picture of elephant

Phonics

Using letter blocks , I had her pull a block from a bucket and say the sound it makes. Then I took out the letters ‘A ‘ and ‘T’ and put them together and asked her what sound they made. She did not know but when I put the letters ‘B’A’B’Y together she knew the sound

 Phonemic Awareness and sounds of speech: Hear me say a word

I model saying all the sounds of the word then I have her do the same

I model
If I say /p/   /i/   /g/ the word is . . .pig. Then I say a list of words and ask her what sounds they make

1.     Car

2.     Light

3.     Knock

4.     Sight

5.     Cat

6.     Play

She struggled with identifying word sounds, I had to guide her through the process.

Learning Activities to Reinforce Development

Phonics was a struggle, I would reinforce development using phonics games from jumpstart.com. Also activities such as worksheet that involve repetition. Flashcards would also be used to help with phonics development. I would also do a ABC activity to help identify letters to their sounds.

 Websites   jumpstart.com

                    Reading rockets.org

                      Scholastic.com

                      Read-write-think