Good Evening Howe Family!
I hope everyone is well!
I wanted to share with you two interactive activities for our Early Readers. Both these activities are from Scholastics and provide our young ones practice of short vowel sounds.
Make a Word: A Clifford Interactive Storybook
With this activity, students create words by dragging missing vowels to them. Once they have created a word, a narrator sounds out the word, helping students practice identifying words with short-vowel sounds and sound spellings.
Learning Objectives
While participating in Make a Word, students will:
- Develop phonemic awareness skills
- Distinguish easily confused letter pairs
- Recognize common short and long vowel sound spellings
- Interact with the computer to create new text
Here, Clifford!: An Interactive Storybook
With this activity, students choose a word (from three options) to complete a sentence and then listen to the page read aloud with the new sentence. The illustration also changes to reflect the new word and sentence.
Sample page:
Clifford runs to the beach.
“Here, Clifford. I see you.
I see you behind the ______. “
Students choose from: fence, net, tent
Learning Objectives
While participating in the “Here, Clifford!” activity, students will:
- Develop phonemic awareness skills
- Read stories containing high-frequency words
- Interact with the computer to create new text
- Understand that changing one word in a sentence can change the meaning of the entire sentence
I hope that you and your families enjoy these resources! Let me know what you think of them 🙂
Stay safe and healthy!
Best,
Ms. Puchala
