Wednesday, January 21, 2015

January-Reading

During this point in the school year I would really encourage families to be continuing work in the area of blending individual sounds into whole words, and segmenting sounds in words.  You can do this in multiple different ways.  I will give you a few examples, but please try to find things that interest your kinder by searching Google or Pinterest using phrases such as "kindergarten segmenting sounds", "kindergarten nonsense word fluency" and "kindergarten word blending" to tailor your work at home to their specific needs. With these searches be looking for activities that will reinforce the same type of behaviors as I outline below!
Examples
While driving home from grocery shopping try giving your kinder a CVC (consonant/vowel/consonant) word and tell him/her to say all the sounds in that word.
Adult: "Tell me all the sounds in pan."
Kinder: "/p/ /a/ /n/"
You will eventually move into words that have blends at the beginning or end of the word, multiple syllables, or compound words to continue to challenge their segmenting skills.

Next try having the adult start with segmenting the sounds in a word and having your kinder blend the sounds together to make a word.
Adult: "Here are sounds I hear in a word.  What word am I saying?  /s/ /m/ /a/ /sh/"
Kinder: "Smash."
Again, start with easier CVC words and then move into more difficult words.

When you are home, try taking this a step further and encourage your kinder to then write the sounds that they hear!  The reading and writing connection is so strong, try to keep reinforcing both with each skill you practice!
Here are some links I have found helpful when practicing these skills at school!  Enjoy!--Mrs. Fisher

http://blog.maketaketeach.com/8-great-ideas-for-teaching-segmenting-and-blending/#
https://www.pinterest.com/ambilow/kindergarten-literacy-blending-segmenting/
http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/blending_games




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