This is the classic multi-sensory Orton-Gillingham approach to learning phonics, and is a particularly useful activity if your kids need a little extra sensory help when learning to blend each letter sound together to form a word. More like this: Phonics Sorting Baskets - The Imagination Tree I'll definitely be looking into those lists before we play next! Now I will say that when I was doing this activity it was all a bit spur of the moment, and thinking of places where we could look for plentiful SSS sounds for her to collect kept me on my toes.After the fact, I found this fabulous list of letter-of-the-alphabet toys and objects you can use in these types of games over at This Reading Mama. So it wouldn't have been a cute photo anyway o) But because my little is 4 and hasn't mastered her pencil yet, I wrote the list so as not to frustrate her. And of course I totally forgot to take photos of our list. So, after we collected our haul, we spread it out on the floor and picked up each item in turn, making a list of what we'd found, and underlining the S in each word. I wasn't initially going to do this on our hunt, because I didn't want to make it too difficult, but since my little did it automatically after grabbing a dress ("dresssss"), I rolled with it!Įxtension for Sound-Letter Matching: My 4yo is starting to match phonemes to letter shapes. Middle and End of Word Sounds: Beyond just beginning letter sounds, you can have your kiddo listen for the target sound in the middle or end of the word. By the end of our scavenge we had a hefty haul, which you've already seen in the picture to the right! ? YES! She was utterly delighted whenever we discovered an item that had a SSS sound and we could pop it in our basket. We held up each item and I prompted: "Does this have the SSSS sound in it? Doll. This is a great activity for building phonemic awareness (the awareness about the letter sounds that make up words). We got our basket and only collected things that began with the letter-sound we were focusing on (in our case, S). So the other day we decided to put a phoneme-twist on her usual "put everything in the basket" scavenge through the house. My 4yo loves to collect anything and everything. I don't know about you, but I have a hoarder.
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