Sorting Syllables Fun Activity!

I honestly don't think I'll ever be tired of telling you how grateful I am that Little V is having this great opportunity to learn in a fun way. I'm privileged to be able to share with her and with you these little things that make learning so much more fun and easier as well. Why do I think fun is so important when learning? Because I personally experienced how terrible it can be to go to school day in and day out and be just bored, so bored that you mind wonder in another direction, far away from the board, boring books and boring teacher speaking things that you cannot quite comprehend because it's so boring!

That's why I put a lot of effort in finding the right curriculum, the one that has more hands on activities and browsing for videos to add to the lesson, and making PowerPoint presentations to help Little V grasp more of whatever subject she needs to learn.

Why am I sharing all of these? Because the topic of today's post was the most dreadful to me, sorting syllables was just not my thing and my teacher did not make it easier either. I was able to get by with the grades and all, but just now after learning with All About Reading so I could teach Little V I feel more confident with this topic!

Here's what I learned through AAR and how a taught*: each syllable has a vowel sound, so you find the vowels first and from there you can start separating the syllables in the word. That's so simple, I wish my teacher had explained to me that way!

Even if the words has 2 vowels, as in the word: BOOT, they are working as a team to make one sound, therefore we keep them together, never separate a team, right!?!

Now, some fun pictures of Little V working on sorting syllables:

An activity as simple as what you saw in the pictures above is enough to involve more senses in the learning process and get the information rooted! ;o)

Have you found a cool way to teach sorting syllables? Leave a comment below, we would love to hear your experience!

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Vanessa Z. Pawlicki

* At this point Little V is only learning how to identify the syllables and sort them, we haven't gotten into all of the separating syllables rules yet.