Curious Firsties: Summer Stock Up: Interacting with Short Vowels

I love all the fresh ideas that are buzzing around during the summer months! All the books studies, extra time to read blogs, and reflect allows me to get ready for the upcoming year.

One of my goals this summer was to prepare some interactive presentations that were engaging and powerful. A few years ago we tried using Powerpoints to help our students with segmenting, blending, and visually seeing how the letters come together. Our firsties need and benefit from this type of explicit, direct lesson in phonics.

The new and improved SHORT VOWEL presentations are here and ready to use!
Each file comes with an introduction Powerpoint that works on one specific vowel sound (such as short a below), an interactive making words Powerpoint, and corresponding printable sheets for the students to use.

Since they are Powepoint presentations, I was able to make them interactive. The letters move on some of the screens to help students see how words are formed or change. The video below shows an example of this:

The corresponding sheets help the students to be accountable for their learning. It provides them with Elkonin boxes to touch and segment the sounds in the words. But then the students can write the sounds for the word inside each box.

The sentences allow the students to see the word in context. I think making that connection from word to sentence is really important.

I look forward to creating more of these Powerpoints this summer for VCE words and vowel teams. But if you would like to win the short vowel collection, please enter below: