A Snapshot into Spelling

Learning Intention: To look carefully at words and identify what is similar in how they look and how they sound.

Learning Experience

Whole:

Over the last few weeks the Preps have been focusing on the long vowel sounds in spelling. This week, as a class we explored the long o vowel patterns o_e, oa, ow. To begin, each student had their own mini whiteboard to create sound boxes and segment/identify the sounds in words. We explored words like boat, goat, home, stone, slow, crow. Students had a go breaking the word into sounds and identifying the correct letter for that sound. Then as a class we verbalised the sounds then blended them to identify the whole word.

Small:

To follow the students consolidated their understanding in their phonics spelling book through various activities. They explored long o words in a sentence, identifying the sounds, identifying objects in their environment with the long o sound, and segmenting and blending long o words.

Student Examples:

In this learning experience, students are working towards:

Identifying all sounds in words
Identifying the long vowel sound
Identifying the long vowel pattern

What you can do now to continue the learning at home from this experience:

When reading books or words in our environment identify if the vowel sound is short or long
Identify what letter pattern is making the long vowel sound
Discuss other long vowel sounds your child can hear in words
Practise segmenting words in their sounds e.g. home 4 letters - 3 sounds /h/ /ō/ /m/

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