Word Stretchercisers
Props to Support Stretching and Blending Sounds in Words (Virtual Tour)
Stage of Literacy Development:
Stage 1: Beginning LiteracyStage 2: Consolidation / Fluency
Ages:
4-6
Grade Range:
PreK K 1stFood Groups:
Primary: Motivation for Literacy, Phonemic Awareness
Transcript
These are our Word Stretchersizers. Students utilize these slinkies that you can basically purchase at the dollar store to give their words a workout. So, when they're trying to figure out a word, they can work it out by stretching it. For example, dog, and what I'll do is I'll actually put a lot of pictures into a bowl so that students can be inspired in terms of what words that they can sound out. Students who like to go the extra mile are actually encouraged to utilize a cookie sheet and letter magnets to see if they can find the corresponding letter sounds to the words that they see on the picture. So for example, /d/ /o/ /g/, the student might find the D, the O, and the G on their cookie sheet. You can find these elastic versions at the teacher store, but you're going to pay a lot more for them.
Activity Objective
The goal of Word Stretchercisers: Props to Support Stretching and Blending Sounds in Words (Virtual Tour) is to help students create an awareness of the individual sounds in spoken words by playing with the individual sounds in words using a toy slinky.
Quick Tips
Additional Comments:
- Create fun and engaging activities for students to build their phonemic awareness.
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