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Teaching Strategy Demo: Stretch and Shrink

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Monique Ealey: Today we are going to stretch and shrink the word map. When we stretch and shrink a word, we say all the sounds slowly so we can hear the individual sounds but still hear how they are connected. Watch and listen as I stretch and shrink the word map. MmmmaaaaaapMap! What was the first sound that you heard? /m/. What was the second sound? /ă/. And what was the last sound? /p/. Map.

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Segmenting Phonemes in Spoken Words Lesson Plan

This lesson plan uses the Touch and Say and Stretch and Shrink teaching strategies to teach students how to segment phonemes in a spoken word.

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