Sound It Out Parking Lot
Guest Mail by Malia of Playdough to Plato
When my 4 yr sometime learned the last few alphabet sounds, I knew that it was fourth dimension to testify him how to blend those sounds together and make words. Learning this new skill would take a lot of practise and then I wanted to make the process more fun and motivating by incorporating one of his favorite things: Matchbox cars. Sound It Out Parking Lot is a playful, hands-on way to help kids brainstorm reading.
To Prep, I pulled out a pile of Matchbox cars, a sheet of dot stickers and a blackness marker. I wrote a different alphabetic character on each dot and attached information technology to the roof of a car. I wanted my son to exist able to build a multifariousness of words so I used the letters {p, f, r, d, t, c, one thousand, a, due east, i, o and u}.
I grabbed a piece of blue construction paper to use equally the parking lot and glued on two strips of yellow construction paper to make parking stalls. {Xanthous record would take made this step even easier but we were all out.}
I placed the {f, i, t} cars in front end of the parking lot and invited my son, C, to bring together me. "Today is a big day!!" I said. "We are going to showtime sticking letters together to make words. Look at the tops of these three cars. What letters do you see?"
"F, I and T," he said.
"And what sounds do those letters make?"
"/F/ … /i/ … /t/" he said carefully.
"Nifty! Now we are going to stick those sounds together like this." I reached over to the cars and said each sound as I pushed the matching motorcar into a parking stall. "/F/ {pushed the f}, /i/{slid the i}, /t/ {moved the t}." I pulled the cars out and invited my son to try information technology too.
We slid the cars out of the stalls again and I showed him how to practice it more quickly. My son eagerly repeated after me. After picking up the step a third time, he figured out the give-and-take. "FIT!!" he exclaimed proudly.
"You lot've got information technology!" I said. "When you lot stick the letters {f, i and t} together y'all make the word {fit}. We sounded out the messages slowly at first and then went back to read them more and more quickly until nosotros figured out our word. Now let's practise again with a new word." I drove the {i} away and replaced it with an {a}. Post-obit the aforementioned process as earlier, my son was able to audio out his new word {fat}.
We continued swapping out one car at a fourth dimension to create new words and with each new word he read, my son'southward speed and confidence grew a petty more. I had so many proud mama moments watching him.
Malia is a National Lath Certified elementary instructor turned stay at home mama to 3 immature kids {4, ii.5 and 5 months}. She shares fun learning activities over at Playdough to Plato. Check out her site and follow along with her newest activities by email.
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