sound power

We practice our sound power daily in reading and writing workshop. In reading we notice the letters in words and use what we know about sounds to read words. In writing we say the sounds we hear slowly, stretching words and writing what we hear. We celebrate sound power through alphabet books and getting our mouths ready for the first sound. Our work is an exploration of sounds, letters, and language.

One way we can make our sound power stronger is to engage with words in many different ways. This week we used picture power and sound power to build words, solve for missing vowels, write beginning sounds, tap, blend, and match. The children engaged with this work during morning greetings, through the morning message, during Fundations, and during our beloved academic choice.

Find Your CVC Word Match Greeting

One greeting we did this week provided another way to work with words having a consonant-short vowel-consonant. Some children had the picture matching a word with 3 sounds while their peers had the matching word. In this greeting the Kindergarteners had to use their picture and sound power to decode the word and find their match!

 

Morning Message Work

Through this work the children noticed what was the same/different, produced rhyming words, counted how many sounds v. how many parts in the words, used sound power to listen for all of the sounds, reinforced their knowledge of consonant v. vowel, and determined what kind of vowel- did it sound like it's name or did we stretch it?

Building Words

Build the word mat. Now change one letter to turn mat into pat.
Build the word pen. What's the vowel (the middle sound) in pen? Turn pen into den. 

 

Academic Choice

Connecting our choices to our work during Fundations, we introduced a new word puzzle for children to build. This quickly became a favorite choice, especially when offered a clipboard and piece of paper to record! On Thursday we further extended learning by providing small books; 
My Book of CVC Words  By -                     

While our academic choice experience connected to our phonics and word study work, it also provided an empowering opportunity for our growing readers, writers, and word scientists to share their work with their peers. We can be authors of many different kinds of books, like little CVC word books!