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3.2 Prepare for Word Play Activities

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Course 1: Phoneme Awareness for Paraprofessionals

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DeAngela Huggins: All right. The first listening game that we're going to do is mystery word. Okay. I'm going to give you the sounds, and on my signal, which is going to be a thumbs up, you are going to put those sounds together and tell me my mystery word. So, for example, if I said /c/, /ӑ/, /t/ ... what's my mystery word? Cat would be my mystery word.

So you guys ready? Yes. All right. So first mystery word is /b/, /r/, ...

Students

/b/, /r/, ... bar.

Ms. Huggins: Very good. /C/, /r/ ...

Students: Car.

Ms. Huggins: Oh, this is a tricky one. /Sh/, /r/, /p/ ...

Students: Sharp.

Ms. Huggins: Very good. Yes. The next one ... /f/, /or/ ...

Students: Four.

Ms. Huggins: Very good. /M/, /or/ ...

Students: More.

Ms. Huggins: And last mystery word is /p/, /or/, /ch/ ...

Students: Porch.

Ms. Huggins: Good job. You guys are really good.

Narrator: For more information, please visit reading universe.org. Special thanks to Burgess Peterson Academy and Atlanta Public Schools. Reading Universe is made possible by generous support from Jim and Donna Barksdale, the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, and two anonymous donors. Reading Universe is a service of WETA, Washington, DC, the Barksdale Reading Institute, and First Book.

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Susan Robison: Now what we're going to do is we are going to actually sort our pictures by ending sound. This is a picture of a mouse.

Students: Mouse.

Susan Robison: A mouse, right? And the ending sound for mouse is /ssss/, so I'm going to have my mouse as my /ssss/ ending sound. Okay. Can you find a picture in your mind, right, that ends with the same sound as mouse. So we have ... [Teacher shows pictures and students point at each and say name of each picture.]

Students: Soap, toothbrush, harp, cactus, horse.

Susan Robison: Who would like to raise their hand and tell me another picture that has the same ending sound.

Student: Horse.

Susan Robison: Horse. What's the ending sound?

Students: /ssss/

Susan Robison: Beautiful job. Here's a picture of soap. What's the ending sound, everybody?

Students: /sss/

Susan Robison: The ending sound for soap ...

Students: /p/

Susan Robison: Yes, /p/, the ending sound for soap. /Soooo/, /p/. There we go. That's going to be another picture for .... hmm, we need to find, find a picture that ends with that same sound. We have [Teacher points to pictures, and teacher and students all recite the words.] toothbrush, harp, cactus. What do you think? What do you think?

Student: Harp.

Susan Robison: Harp. What's the ending sound? The ending sound. So we know it's harp. What's the ending sound? Har- ...

Students: /p/

Susan Robison: Yes. Oh my goodness. You did a beautiful job today producing your ending sounds. And this is going to help you with your reading and your writing, because we always have to hear the final sounds in words. Great job.

Narrator: For more information, please visit ReadingUniverse.org. Special thanks to Literacy How, Stillmeadow Elementary School, and Stamford Public Schools in Stamford, Connecticut. Reading Universe is made possible by generous support from Jim and Donna Barksdale, the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, and two anonymous donors. Reading Universe is a service of WETA, Washington, D.C., the Barksdale Reading Institute, and First Book.

Susan Robison: This is Reading Universe.

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Carla Stanford: These are called sound boxes. [Ms. Stanford points to boxes drawn in a row on a white board.] I'm going to say a word. I'm going to have you repeat the word and then we are going to push the two, the first two sounds in the word, and you can tap, so it will go like this. We'll do a practice. The word is block. Repeat. 

Students: Block.

Carla Stanford: Tappers up. 

Carla Stanford and students: /b/, /l/ ... 

Carla Stanford: Did you hear that? '/b/, /l/, /ŏ/, /c/. Block. Excellent.

Elkonin Box Template for Phoneme Word Play

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Students: /b/, /ĭ/, /t/ ... bit ...

Reading Universe is made possible by generous support from Jim & Donna Barksdale; the Hastings/Quillin Fund, an advised fund of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (opens in new window); the AFT (opens in new window); the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation (opens in new window); and three anonymous donors.