Kinesthetic/ Vowel Combination
Title: Double EE to the Feel
The students go to the website below and click on vowel combination and listen to the sound it makes. After hearing the sound the students must think of a word and then act out the word. Like the double ee and the word is fEEl and then they can feel their shirt.
Resource:
http://www.readingkey.com/phonics/sounds/vowels/voweltest.htm | Contributor: Travis Bockelmann |
| Mail: bockelmt@pluto.dsu.edu |
Title: Chin Bobs / Clapping The Beats
A kinesthetic method involves having students hold their index and middle fingers beneath their chin and feel the number of times the chin bobs downward as they articulate the phonemic segments of a word. Clapping parts of words is an excellent strategy to enable students to become aware that longer, multisyllabic words have more "parts" than shorter, monosyllabic words. It can also help in vowel combinations, were the vowels may only have one beat. Of course, it's not necessary for students to be familiar with jargon such as "syllable." You can use the terminology "beats" or "parts" to help them understand the concept of syllables.
Resource:
www.selu.edu/Academics/Education/TEC/phonics.htm | Contributor: Lisa Marie Clark |
| Mail: clarkl@pluto.dsu.edu |
Title: Word Hunting
Idea: After covering the sounds that vowel combinations can make, such as "ea" can make two different sounds, such as in "bread" and in "bead." Then have the children do a scavenger hunt through familiar books, magazines, or websites and make a list of "ea" words they find. Afterwards the children need to categorize what type of vowel sound the combination makes. This activity is a hands-on way to work with vowel combinations, which is what is needed for kinesthetic learners.
Resource:
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view_printer_friendly.asp?id=89 | Contributor: Ashley Schiferl |
| Email: ash_schiferl@yahoo.com |
Title: Body Letters - Vowel Combinations
Idea: The teacher divides the class into three groups and gives each group a
different vowel combination. For example, EE, EA, OO, AI, OY, etc. Each group
has to spell out as many words as they can by transforming their bodies to make
the shape of a letter (preferably on the ground). Depending on the number of
students in the group, some words will have too many letters and there will not
be enough people to spell the letter. The groups will have to focus on words
with very few letters and words that still have the vowel combination in them
that the teacher has assigned them.
Resource:
http://bogglesworldesl.com/vowel_combinations.htm
| Contributor: Nikki Pidde |
| Email: nikkipidde@hotmail.com |
Title: Word Acting
Idea: Split class into groups and give them different vowel combinations. Give
them 3-5 words to start with, (Bee-Tree-Feet-Need-Free-See-Three-Speed-Freeze)
have them come up with a list of words- after so, have them act out their words
in a mini skit. Example would be, FREEZE! I SEE a BEE in the TREE.
Resource:
http://bogglesworldesl.com/vowel_combinations.htm
| Contributor: Jamie Becker |
| Email: beckerj@pluto.dsu.edu |