Making Good Use of Activities!!

We all know the adage "Practice makes perfection", right? Based on that we all know also that practice helps a student to really get the idea, helps them to feel confident and sometimes we run out of activities or have to search for more activities or we can simply add something to an activity that you already have in order to give them more practice.

On Lesson 12 of All About Reading level 3, Little V was learning about Syllable Division Rule for Three Consonant Tiles. Basically, she had to figure out where to separate the syllables in words that have 3 consonants between the vowels, like in CHILDREN and PUMPKIN.

One way: like in CHILDREN, first you locate the vowels (highlighted in yellow), then you separate the syllable right after the first consonant in between the vowels. CHIL-DREN

Another way: like in the word PUMPKIN, again locate the vowels, but in this case if you separate right after the first vowel, you won't make a word, so you'll move the second consonant to the first syllable. PUMP-KIN

One of the activities of this lesson was to read the word in a loaf of bread and "cut" them (separate) the syllables with a fake knife. I thought it would impress more on her mind if we could use colors. So I asked her to color the vowels, and then we would check which way would be best. She got it and she was really good at it. After we did it with the markers, she was able to do "cut the bread with the knife" as intended and I was happy to know that she really understood the rules of dividing syllables with the consonants between the vowels.

Hope you have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Vanessa Z. Pawlicki