To assist children learning how to
read, we offer small group instruction that focuses on the six syllable types.
Using Road to Reading, and Wilson Language, each week children
receive instruction that meets them at their instructional level. Typically
children meet in small groups with a teacher four times a week for 20 – 30
minutes each. Students manipulate letters on a sound-board to make words which
change one sound at a time. For example: (hat, hit, hot, not, cot, cat, mat,
map, mop.) At other times they play games (such as Go Fish, Bingo, Word Sorts
and board games) to practice these skills. In a third session they are
asked to write words, sometimes sorting them into columns (such as short a, short i, short o), sometimes writing
complete sentences. Finally each child
reads one-on-one with an adult to practice these skills in context.
Currently we have five
groups of children benefitting from this program. We have beginning readers
working on cvc syllables (such as cat, pig, log, net and bus), another group is
being introduced to blends and digraphs (such as lift, glass and ship). A third
group is working on reading cvce syllables (such as cake, bike). A group of
older students, having mastered reading two syllable words with combinations of
open, closed and silent-e syllables, have moved onto vowel team syllables. They
started with vowel teams that make only one sound: ay, ai, oy, oi, oa, aw, au
and ee. Once these are mastered and they can read them in two syllable words, they
will move onto syllables with the vowel teams which make more than one sound:
ea, ou, ow, oo, and ew.
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