Blending and Segmenting Activitity

When beginning readers sound out words, they slowly say each sound in a word (c-a-t), and then say the sounds quickly together to "read" the word (cat). In reading, teachers call this blending because sounds are being blended together. Blending (combining sounds) and segmenting (separating sounds) are skills that are necessary for learning to read.

Below is one of blending and segmenting activity that I've carried out in the classroom. Love to share it with you all here.

Step 1  : Pupils are divided into 5 groups.

Step 2 : Each group is given sets of phoneme cards and a picture.

Step 3 : Pupils hang the phoneme cards around their necks and rearrange them

            to form word that stressing on the phoneme /z/.

Step 4 : Pupils blend and say the word together.

SETS OF PHONEME CARD AND PICTURE

PUPILS BLEND AND SAY THE WORD TOGETHER

zoo  z-oo  zoo

pizza  p-i-zz-a  pizza 

fizz  f-i-zz  fizz

buzz  b-u-zz  buzz 
 

zip  z-i-p  zip

Here are some resources for teachers to find more ideas of blending and segmenting games:

http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/blending_games/

http://www.pcboe.net/les/elderweb/phoneme%20segmentation/Phoneme%20Segmentation%20Games-1.pdf 

http://www.scholastic.com/dodea/Module_1/resources/dodea_m1_tr_blendseg.pdf

Our first hotdog booklet ^_*

Hotdog booklet is a fun and easy book that you and your children can make. They can write about a special activity or anything they enjoy. It’s handy to take in the car or put in your pocket. What you need to prepare are just a piece of A4 paper, a pair of scissors and coloured pencils. I've made hotdog booklet with my Year 1 and Year 2 pupils during English period. They were excited with the joy to write or draw something inside the 6 pages and the cover of the booklet. The books are then displayed in such a way that encourages pupils to read them. They were encouraged to read each others books too.
Teacher can try using these books for revision or as an assessment for other subjects too. Try then have fun of learning.

 Step by step...Let make the hotdog booklet together!

MY FIRST HOTDOG BOOKLET

Picture 1 & 2 - Cover of the booklet.

Picture 3, 4, 5 & 6 - Contents of the booklet.

 MY PUPILS' FIRST HOTDOG BOOKLET

Cover of the booklet

Contents of the booklet

Front of the booklet

Back of the booklet

I love singing.

I like to eat cake.

Yummy Yummy

Year 1 -Ng Ai Rou

Year 1 -Edyln Lee

Year 1 -Chia Ke Xin

Year 1 -Chia Xin Ru

Year 1 -Chiong Jun Jie

Year 1 -Cheryl Chan

Year 1 -Tan Xin Yee

Year 1 -Kek Kai Ling

Year 1 -Seet Mun Yee

Year 1 -Foo Wan Jin

Year 1 -Lee Kar Qi

Year 1 -Fua Ziqiang

Year 1 -Angus Siew Jun Fai

Year 2 -Beh Yan Mei

Year 2 -Chua Hui Qi

Year 2 -Loo Zi Wei

Year 2 -Chia Zi Qi & Wai Jia Xin

Making Hotdog Booklet

The Hot Dog Booklet has a front and back cover and six pages inside. You can use any size paper. For a book from recycled materials, use the front panel of a grocery bag or any piece of paper with writing on only one side. The writing should be on the inside when you make the first fold. To make multiple copies of a book, make a blank book with plain copy paper (no writing on either side). Write and illustrate your book with black marker or pen. Open the sheet and lay it face down on a copier. Make as many copies as you want. Fold and cut each one.

1. Fold the paper in half the long way, like a hot dog. 

2. Open the paper and fold it in half the short way, like a hamburger.

3. Take one layer of paper, flip the edge back to meet the fold, and crease.
 

4. Turn the paper over, flip the edge of the paper back to meet the fold,
   and crease. 

5. Place the paper on the table so that you see a "W" when you look at 
   the end.

6. Cut the center of the W along the center fold. You'll be cutting through 
   two layers of paper and stopping at the cross fold. 

7. With your wrists above your fingers, hold the two halves of the hot dog 
   from the top.

8. Turn your wrists to the sides. You will have an open book with four 
   sections.

9. Bring three of the sections together. Fold the last section on top of the
   other three so that you have a flat book. 

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Fun of recite rhyme (1)

They clap their hands.
They mimic the action of the animals.
They recite the rhyme happily.
And they learn the sound of the animals.

Pupils wear the animal masks provided by teacher. They looked cute!

Pupils mimic the movements of the animals. 

SOUNDS OF ANIMALS

Birds chirp,

chirp, chirp, chirp

Bees buzz,

buzz, buzz, buzz

Cats meow,

meow, meow, meow

Cows moo,

moo, moo, moo

Dogs bark,

woof, woof, woof

ducks quack,

quack, quack, quack

Pupils clap their hands while recite the rhyme "Sounds of Animals".

Pupils mimic the movements of the animals while recite the rhyme "Sounds of Animals".




 

How to teach children to hold a pencil?

I want to share a little tip today -- HOW TO TEACH CHILDREN TO HOLD A PENCIL. My colleague taught it to me many years ago. It's such a good idea, I couldn't keep it to myself. One of my Year 1 pupil unable to hold the pencil in the correct way. You probably know how hard it can be to explain to a child exactly how a pencil should "sit" properly in his or her little hands.

My colleague told me to teach the child hold the pencil this way:

1. Take a coin. Have the child pinch the coin in his/her pinky and ring finger.
   ( you can use others suitable materials to replace coin, etc button,
     tissue paper...)  

2. While the child still pinching the coin in those two fingers, tell him to
   hold the pencil in the remaining three fingers.

3. Markedly, the child will naturally hold the pencil in the right way as long
   as the coin is still in his 4th and 5th fingers.

Phonics Sounds and Actions

My pupils love to learn phonics sounds with variety actions. The actions help them to memorize the sound of the letters. This is a fun way of learning phonics sounds. The pupils enjoy themselves very much.

 

s, a, t, p 

 

 

i, n, m, d

g, o, c, k

 ck, e, u, r

h, b, f, l

 j, v, w, x

y, z, qu