Our big focus during our literacy block is learning how to slowly stretch words. This is a necessary skill for both reading and writing. To work on this skill we are using Elkonin boxes. These are simply three to four empty squares and the children slide counters up into one square at a time for each sound they hear in a word. This week we have Christmas Elkonin boxes at one of our language centers to work on stretching!
We are also working hard on word families! Our first word family was the /at/ family. This week we are working on the /an/ family. Below you can see a friend is working on our read it, build it, write it word family book. In learning word families the children begin to have a larger amount of words they can read by sight without having to sound them out. They also learn to find these word family "chunks" within other words which will help them with their reading.
Below a friend is using the Elkonin boxes to build words with the /an/ chunk.
As we work on each word family we are creating word sliders for our book boxes so we can continue to work on read this words quickly!
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