Here's the ultimate teaching reading using spelling tool for home or school.
ScholarSkills Sound and Say®️ is an innovative tool designed to create alphabetic, syllabic, and phonemic awareness for exceptional foundations in spelling and reading. Each letter can be pressed to play and spell its sound, enhancing auditory discrimination. The Sound and Say kit includes a mouth position chart to help children focus on accurate articulation. Sound and Say helps parents detect and correct potential reading problems at the earliest and most sensitive stages of literacy. At T.A.G. ScholarSkills, we value multisensory tools that aid in V.I.T.A.L. Therapy and Orton-Gillingham strategies to support all readers effectively.
Lesson tips: How to use Sound and Say effectively so that children develop strong foundations for excellence in spelling, reading, and writing
Your goal is to help students develop alphabetic, syllabic, and phonemic awareness while sharpenening auditory discrimination so that when they hear letter, syllable, and word sounds, they see letters, syllables, and words in their minds. And when they see printed letters, syllables, and words, they hear the sounds that those letters, syllables, and words represent. In effect, when they hear speech sounds, they should see alphabet symbols, and when they see printed alphabet symbols, they should hear speech sounds.
Here's how:
- Teach students to connect the spellings to the sounds by touching each sound and writing the letter down. If they haven't yet learned to write, use your alphabet letter-sound cards to represent and spell each sound. Do the same for each of the exercises below
- Teach students to spell sylllables such as (ab, eb, ib,) by having them touch each sound and write the letters down that spell the syllable sound.
- Teach students to spell CVC words (consonant-vowel-consonat) words by having them touch each sound and write the letters down that spell each word.
- Test students knowledge by turning the kit away from their view and ask them to perform each of the spelling exercises listed above.
- Repeat this cycle of connecting sounds to symbols and symbols to sound by spelling longer words.
- You can also delete a letter and sound and ask students to add the sound and letter that completes the word. Try this with syllables then three letter C-V-C words.
- Show students that words can have more letters than sounds. For example, press the "r" "E (long /e/" and "d" letters to spell the word "read." Ask the students to count the letters in the word "read." Now ask them to count the sounds once again that make up the word. Show them that read consists of four letters but only three sounds. This exercise reinforces the alphabetic principle while sharpening phonemic awareness, auditory discrimination, and spelling skills.
- Have fun knowing that you are helping your students to build strong foundations for reading by training their ears to hear and their minds to see the sounds and letters we use to say, spell, and write every English word.
- Be creative. Use your imagination: Sound and Say has unlimited possibilities for use at home or in the classroom.
ScholarSkills Sound and Say®️
If for any reason this product does not meet your expectations, please contact us. If we can assist you to fix the problem, we will do so in a personal and timely fashion. If you are still dissatisfied, we will refund your money with no questions asked. Our refund policy lasts for 90 days, which we hope will give you enough time to test the product's effectiveness for your children.
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