A Learning Activity is a strategy a teacher chooses to actively
engage students in learning a concept or skill using a digital tool/resource.
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Phase:
During/Explore/Explain
Activity:
The teacher should print out the included digital tool. This document provides the procedures to redeliver this activity with small groups of students.
Assessment Strategies:
As you conduct the group chaining activity, observe students and evaluate their responses to the phonemic awareness and phonics tasks to determine their mastery of the skills.
Advanced Preparation:
In this activity, you can introduce the skill with a quick review of the "before" activity to review sound manipulation skills with students. There are videos included that can be used to practice sound manipulation, substitutions, deletions, and additions.
The teacher will need to have this list of words and procedures available during the activity. The teacher should review the procedures prior to teaching the activity to students.
Variation Tips (optional):
Extension/Expansion: Advanced students should create their own "word chaining" list. Students can share their word-chaining list with a partner.
Tier 2 Intervention: In a small group, the teacher can use Elkonin boxes and two different color manipulatives to demonstrate sound manipulation in word-chaining scenarios. Students work using Elkonin boxes to count phonemes and graphemes, recognizing that some words have 4 letters, but only three sounds. See this video for a demonstration of this strategy.