Playdough Reading!
Well Bunny is really close to reading! I can feel it! She needs to really understand the sounds blending and she will have it. I think she gets the idea, but she need to practice it. When she sees a word that she hasn’t seen before, she has to think for a really long time. She gets it most of the time.
Anyway, today we were all playing with playdough and Bunny was making snails. I thought I’d be silly and write the word snail with the dough! 🙂 She thought it was really cool and before I knew it we were talking about the double letter “ai”! She isn’t ever very interested in doing new sounds, so I was really glad I could take advantage of these teachable moments. Then I thought I would push a little bit and I wrote a “nail” with playdough and asked her to read it. She DID!!!! She was SO proud! Then she wrote it with her moveable alphabet!!!! We also wrote “cool” and “tool”! I told her she was reading and she was so excited her buried her face into a pillow! Then she really got confident and tried to read a book. It didn’t work real well, but she did remember some of the sight words I showed her the other day! I was really proud of her and I just cant wait till she reads! I’m sure that one day it will just click and she will read everything! 🙂 Here are some pictures of her work:
September 22, 2011 @ 3:03 am
This is a fabulous example of word family magic; when young children discover that bat, cat, fat, hat are all related AND, once you can read “cat” it is easy to substitute the other initial consonants.
Carolyn
http://www.storytimestandouts.com
September 22, 2011 @ 2:24 pm
I love how you were able to spark all that learning. Have you tried Reading Eggs. You can sign up for a two week trial free. It really helped Bear with the blending. Two weeks would be enough to get her to get it more quickly. If you aren’t opposed to computer time for her.
September 23, 2011 @ 12:58 am
It’s so fun to see your girls learn! You are so creative and fun in your ideas for them. They are lucky to have you as their teacher.
September 23, 2011 @ 2:39 pm
Very cool Stephanie! I’ll have to add this to the activities for my 3 and 5 year olds to try.
September 24, 2011 @ 6:41 pm
Thanks so much everyone! We really did have fun with this project! Sometimes the best learning is totally unplanned! 🙂 If any of you do playdough letters, let me know how it worked for you!
Julie~ thanks for the website idea. I will have to chack it out!