Word Building

As the students have been (re)introduced to new letter sounds in our Imagine It serIes, we have been using these sounds to build words in a daily activity we call Word Building. The students each have the same letter card on their desks and as we say the sounds in the word to spell ('man': /m/ /a/ /n/) the students choose the correct card to match the sound. We then say the sounds again, making sure our sounds and letters match before blending the word as a class. 

 

With only 6 letters we made more than 10 words! 

When students are writing and want to know how to spell a word, you can ask them to do the same thing we do in word building: "Say the sounds in the word and write the sounds you hear."