Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Technology for Teaching ECE Language Arts


Content: Kindergarten Standard 3, Objective 4, Orally manipulate phonemes in words and syllables (manipulation).
Pedagogy: The students will be given explicit instruction in the classroom about phonemes and have practice as in a whole class context. In this activity, the children will be required to manipulate and substitute the middle vowel in words to create new words. With this program, children can actually see how the vowels can replace one another to create new words, and understand the different ways that words sound and look with new and different middle phonemes. This activity will provide them with an opportunity to visually see how replacing the phonemes creates an entirely new word.

Technology: The program we use is a game in which children click and drag letters to place them in blanks to create as many actual words as possible. This game was taken from the Scholastic website: (http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/flash/vowels/index.htm)

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