At school, we just completed our AIMSweb Benchmarking.
Most of the kiddos had a great deal of difficulty with Letter Sound Fluency (LSF). If you are unfamiliar with AIMSweb, this is where the student is presented with a random series of upper and lower case letters and they need to produce as many sounds as they can in 1 minute.
When I assessed them with my Letter-Sound Assessment to see exactly what letters and sounds they knew, I found that many of them simply didn't know many letter-sound correspondences. So they really need a boost in this area.
One game that I like to play with my kiddos is the,
"Hide/Find the ____" game.
This game has been around for years and years, but I just love how you can make simple changes and the kids continue to love it each and every time they play it.
I didn't have any fun alphabet cards to use for the winter season (well, none that wasn't currently part of an activity I would be using), so I made these Snowman Alphabet cards to place into a pocket chart and play, "Hide the Penguin" to reinforce letters and sounds.
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How do I play, Hide the Penguin?
Most of the kiddos had a great deal of difficulty with Letter Sound Fluency (LSF). If you are unfamiliar with AIMSweb, this is where the student is presented with a random series of upper and lower case letters and they need to produce as many sounds as they can in 1 minute.
When I assessed them with my Letter-Sound Assessment to see exactly what letters and sounds they knew, I found that many of them simply didn't know many letter-sound correspondences. So they really need a boost in this area.
One game that I like to play with my kiddos is the,
"Hide/Find the ____" game.
This game has been around for years and years, but I just love how you can make simple changes and the kids continue to love it each and every time they play it.
I didn't have any fun alphabet cards to use for the winter season (well, none that wasn't currently part of an activity I would be using), so I made these Snowman Alphabet cards to place into a pocket chart and play, "Hide the Penguin" to reinforce letters and sounds.
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How do I play, Hide the Penguin?
Well, do you see that little penguin above?
He is the little guy who I hide behind the cards.
I simply place the letters I want to reinforce into my pocket chart, as seen below (I play this game with sight words too).
I then hide the little penguin behind one of the cards.
I simply place the letters I want to reinforce into my pocket chart, as seen below (I play this game with sight words too).
The kiddos take turns naming a letter and/or producing a sound trying to find the penguin!
Have you played this game before? Do your kids like it as much as mine?
If you are interested in my Letter-Sound Assessment, you can find it in both of my shops!
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Have you played this game before? Do your kids like it as much as mine?
If you are interested in my Letter-Sound Assessment, you can find it in both of my shops!
I LOVE those cute little snowmen!! AND you have snow falling on your blog! Too cute!!
ReplyDeletecute idea! I have never played something like this... I might give it a try this week as we work on letter review. Thanks
ReplyDeleteSara
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Thanks Sara! Let me know how it goes! My kiddos love it!! Hope you are doing well!
ReplyDeleteThank you Annie!! Yes, it is snowing! Glad I don't have to shovel all of it! Ha!!
ReplyDeleteGreat ideas! My students also had some difficulty with LSF this week. I think the one minute is a bit stressful, too. We also did phonemic segmentation with the kindergarten students and that was rather eye opening!
ReplyDeleteI am having some difficulty blogging regularly ,too. Maybe once we get the hang of the multitude of assessments, we will get back into a routine. Thanks again!