Toolbox by Andrew Maple

Elkonin Boxes

mapleandrew63 — 2024-02-22 02:36:11 UTC

Elkonin Boxes helps young readers build their phonological awareness. Elkonin boards do this by helping students segment words into individual sounds, or phonemes.

Elkonin boxes could be used in practice by making a fun game for students as they learn segmenting. If students are having trouble segmenting words, or if the teacher just feels as if it is time for a review, Elkonin boxes could be a great option.

Elkonin Boxes. Reading Rockets. (n.d.-b). https://www.readingrockets.org/classroom/classroom-strategies/elkonin-boxes

Graphic Organizers

mapleandrew63 — 2024-02-22 02:52:36 UTC

Graphic organizers can be used in many different classroom scenarios. Graphic organizers help students to organize their thoughts and information in order to better comprehend the lesson. Perhaps the greatest strength about graphic organizers is that they can be molded by the teacher to fit any lesson or student.

An example of how graphic organizers can be used in practice is by asking students to create a venn diagram that compares and contrasts suffixes and prefixes.

What should content-area teachers know about comprehension instruction?. IRIS Center. (n.d.). https://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/module/sec-rdng/cresource/q3/p11/

Match Books To Phonics Features

mapleandrew63 — 2024-02-22 03:32:52 UTC

Matching books to phonics features is just how it sounds. It is when a teachers purposefully selects a text that includes a phonics feature that students need to learn. The text should be age appropriate and offer plenty of opportunities to practice the desired phonic feature. This reenforces phonics instruction by allowing students to experience it in an actual book.

An example of how this might be used in practice is if the teacher wants to review rhymes. The teacher could find a book that includes a lot of rhymes and used that as an opportunity to teach the students.

Matching books to phonics features. Reading Rockets. (n.d.-c). https://www.readingrockets.org/classroom/classroom-strategies/matching-books-phonics-features

Word Wall

mapleandrew63 — 2024-02-22 03:37:24 UTC

A word wall is a collection of words placed in the classroom for all to see. A word wall is a great tool for spelling and reading, but it also offers benefits for phonics instruction because it helps students to see patterns and relationships among words.

A word wall could simply be used by placing it in a location that the entire class can see, and slowly adding words over a period of time. This would allow the teacher to go over each individual word, and allow the teacher to help students make connections or see patterns between the words. It would also help students with spelling, as they would be able to reference back to the word wall if they were ever unsure.

Word walls. Reading Rockets. (n.d.-f). https://www.readingrockets.org/classroom/classroom-strategies/word-walls

Dictation

mapleandrew63 — 2024-02-22 04:01:34 UTC

Dictation is simply writing down what someone else has said. This can be used in the classroom by the teacher writing down what students say. This allows the teacher to model skills, such as sentence formation, hand writing and matching sounds to letters.

Dictation can be used in the classroom by having the class write a story together. This will allow more active engagement, while also giving the teacher many opportunities to model skills such as sentence formation and matching sounds to letters.

Dictation. Reading Rockets. (n.d.-a). https://www.readingrockets.org/classroom/classroom-strategies/dictation

SLAP!

mapleandrew63 — 2024-02-22 04:08:13 UTC

SLAP! is a multi-sensory game that allows students to get up and move. In this game, the teacher projects a series of letters on the whiteboard, and the students are given a fly swatter. Then, the teacher says a word and the students slap the letter to match the sound they hear.

In practice, SLAP! can be used a a fun game that provides students with an opportunity to involve movement in their learning. A movement based game like slap can help physically immerse students in to the lesson, and increase engagement.

Multisensory phonics. Learner Variability Project. (n.d.). https://lvp.digitalpromiseglobal.org/content-area/literacy-pk-3/strategies/multisensory-phonics-literacy-pk-3/summary#:~:text=Multisensory%20phonics%20instruction%20incorporates%20activities,a%20core%20aspect%20of%20reading.

Sound Scavenger Hunt

mapleandrew63 — 2024-02-22 04:24:22 UTC

Sound scavenger hunt can be done by giving students a sound, and then asking students to find an item in the room that corresponds with that sound. For example, the teacher might say, "can you find something with the letter "p" ppppp sound?" Then then the students would point out objects that begin with that sound, like a pencil.

It may not be practical for a teacher to base an entire lesson around a sound scavenger hunt, but it may be a fun way for a quick review. If a student is having trouble with letter sounds the teacher could quickly send him on a sound scavenger hunt, and find a real world example.

Phonological and phonemic awareness: Activities for your kindergartener. Reading Rockets. (n.d.-e). https://www.readingrockets.org/literacy-home/reading-101-guide-parents/your-kindergartener/phonological-and-phonemic-awareness

Block it

mapleandrew63 — 2024-02-22 04:27:18 UTC

In this exercise, the teacher shows that each syllable is a part of the word by pushing out a block for each syllable as it is said. This provides the students with a visual representation for parts of a word.

This can be used in the classroom as a visual representation of syllables. This would be a great tool for visual learners and would provide the students with another learning method. This could also be a great tool for review for any struggeling students.

11 fun activities for boosting phonological awareness. Brookes Blog. (2022, March 8). https://blog.brookespublishing.com/11-fun-activities-for-boosting-phonological-awareness/

Animal Names

mapleandrew63 — 2024-02-22 04:31:55 UTC

The teacher shows each student a flash card with an animal on it. The student then tells the teacher the name of the animal. And then the teacher asks the student to identify the sound at the beginning of the animals name. This activity allows students to apply their phonological knowledge to already known information.

This activity could be used as a quick warm up for younger students. Before beginning a lesson a teacher could used this method to engage students in a fun manner, while also getting them ready to think phonologically.

11 fun activities for boosting phonological awareness. Brookes Blog. (2022, March 8). https://blog.brookespublishing.com/11-fun-activities-for-boosting-phonological-awareness/

Highlighting phonological concepts in songs

mapleandrew63 — 2024-02-22 04:39:06 UTC

Highlighting phonological concepts in songs is a great idea because it allows students to experience these phonological awareness concepts in a more natural example. This would also be a good way of presenting these concepts in a new way that students may find exciting. Instead of reading another book, students can read the song to see the concepts, and then sing the song to hear the concepts.

This can be used in practice to help students understand rhymes. Many songs include lyrics that rhyme, and it could be fun for students to try and find all the rhymes in their favorite songs.

Examples to promote phonological awareness. Department of Education. (n.d.). https://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/teachingresources/discipline/english/literacy/readingviewing/Pages/litfocusphonologicalexample.aspx