Visual/Vowels
Short Vowels Sounds:
Once your child can identify the five vowels you can play this game. Use short vowel sounds. Say the sound of a short vowel, and ask your child what is the "name" of the vowel. You say the name of a vowel, and, let them give you the short sound. Connect your child's new knowledge of vowels to the storybooks that you are reading to them. Take a simple word with a short vowel sound in their storybook, and ask them what vowel is in the word. See if they can give you another word with that same vowel. If they can not, give them a choice of two words, and ask them which of the words has the same vowel sound as the word in their story.
Resource:
ABC Read Endorsement Page
http://www.homeschoolreading.com/gametip.htm | Contributor: Laura Calmus |
| Mail: calmusl@pluto.dsu.edu |
Vowel Reinforcement with Starfall.com
This website reinforces short and long vowel and some vowel blends. Students will see stories, music, and short cartoon videos reinforcing the vowel sounds in pattern words. The computer will also pronounce any word in the text with only a click of the mouse. The students are given the sounds of the letters and then the sounds are blended into the word.
Resource
| Contributor: Vicki Sterling |
| Mail: Vicki.Sterling@dsu.edu |
Title: Max's Attic Vowel Board Game
It is a board game that helps children learn long and short vowels. The website give you the directions and a sample spinner you can create and download in acrobat reader.
Resource:
http://www.learningresources.com/customerservice/instructions/pdf/5056guide.pdf | Contributor: Audrey Pazour |
| Mail: audreyjopazour@yahoo.com |
Modality: Visual
Title: Vowel Match
Take your list of vocabulary words and write what each word on a seperate note card. On the back of the note card, you will write what vowel sound the word makes (long or short). To play, give each child a card. Group students into two. The first student begins by reading the word and the second student has to guess what vowel sound it makes. Long or short. Go on till every student has had a chance to go. This is a great way to learn vowels visually.
Resource:
Instructor Online, Oct. 2003
| Contributor: Kristy Nielson |
| Mail: nielsonk@pluto.dsu.edu |
Title: Chicken Stacker
Idea: This is a game that helps students with short vowel sounds. The game involves matching the vowel sound to the words.
Resource: PBS Kids:
http://pbskids.org/lions/games/stacker2.html | Contributor: Julie Delfs |
| Email: delfsj@pluto.dsu.edu |
Title: Chicken Stacker
Idea: The idea of this interactive game is for students to recognize vowel
sounds. For instance, for the short 'a' sound students click on the egg if it
has a word with a short 'a' sound. The goal is to stack five eggs, if the
student picks a wrong word they have to start over. Students can make the game
easier or harder, faster or slower.
Resource:
http://pbskids.org/lions/games/stacker2.html
| Contributor: Jill Doss |
| Email: dossj@pluto.dsu.edu |