The kids found it hard to differentiate between vowel sounds, so, in our reading fluency classes we decided to take up short vowel sounds more seriously. The confusion between the short sounds of E and I were evident. If they were told to write pet or pit they wouldn't know which vowel to use for which one. Also, there was amazing amount of confusion between the sounds of U and A. So we made it a point to make the class more colourful and fun. Now everday before the reading fluency class starts, we take 5 minutes off to revise vowel sounds.
We also learnt the difference between ONSET and RIME today.
I tried uploading the before-class-quick-short-vowel-sound-revision video, but, the file size is too big! :(
Hopefully, I figure out a way to put it up here soon! :)
Just stumbled across this blog, really nice anecdotes, but I guess you have stopped posting? Continue the good work and post a little more if possible. May be using youtube for the videos as it compresses the files and share the link on the blog?
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