sound power and letters!

As we continue to strengthen our hearing, isolating, and blending of sounds, we make the connection to letters and text. Our foundational work and play supports students as they write more words and study and read unknown words. 

The children are working on making connections and applying their knowledge and skills with more independence - a rich and challenging process that will continue throughout our year learning and growing together.

Letter Identification-Sound

While playing with letter puzzles during choice, CS is working on learning letters and looks to our classroom alphabet, naming the letters as his peers begin to build the alphabet on the rug. As they connect pieces, they point and read name-picture-sound, just like during Fundations. 

Showing Sounds (in different ways!)

The children have been using sound power to listen for sounds and blend sounds together.

We use tiles to show the first, middle, and last sound in words. 

We connect sounds to letters by building words.

We notice words that end the same or rhyme and make the connection to word families. On Tuesday, the children will work with words that all end with the rhyme in, we will continue to notice the middle sound and ending sound in all of the words!

We use sound power to isolate beginning sounds and think of other words that begin with the same sound.

We use sound power to help us to figure out other words. For example, if I know we, I know be, me, he! 

Application during Academic Choice (one example!)

BM taps the sounds she hears in the word pup, writing a letter for each sound she hears. She adds her label, pup, to her lego puppy. 

When writing motorcycle, we feel and clap the syllables. I draw little syllable boxes on her sticky note, helping to figure out all of the sounds she hears. BM listens for the sounds she hears in each part, writing a letter for each sound. She slides her finger under the parts, blending the syllables together and reading the word!