![]() ![]() Getting Ready: Three sound–letter connecting strategiesĪfter kindergartners can isolate individual beginning sounds in classmate’s names, I proceed to teach three sound–letter connecting strategies. Students love playing with their classmates’ names like this. When most of the class can successfully sound match, I proceed to sound isolation, which is basically a reverse of sound matching: I say a student’s name and the student’s classmates must isolate the first sound in the name. It is sung to the tune of “Skip to My Lou.” I begin teaching this strategy with sound matching by having students try to match the sound I say with the beginning sound in one of their classmate’s names. The second song strategy, The Name Song, helps students hear beginning individual sounds in spoken words (phonemic awareness). It is sung to the tune of “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” and requires both an ABC chart for class use and individual ABC strips for each student to use as they write independently. The first song strategy, ABC Song Strategy, helps students find-and, when ready, write-letters of their choosing. ![]() Getting Ready uses two song strategies and three sound–letter connecting strategies. To help this issue, I devised Getting Ready, a daily learning structure that should precede writers’ workshop. Invented spelling can be challenging when students write random strings of symbols or mix numbers and shapes with mock letters. However, this leads educators to seek out ways to help their students write with inventing spelling. Invented spelling not only helps develop the alphabetic principle but also is the best predictor of reading according to Charles Temple and colleagues, Donald Bear and colleagues, and Marie Clay.Īs a literacy consultant who has worked in more than 100 kindergarten classrooms over the past 34 years, I have found that teachers understand students actively construct their own literacy learning about phoneme–grapheme correspondences when they engage in the process of meaningful writing of their own choosing. Connecting sounds to letters in this manner is called invented spelling. Around that time, Charles Read demonstrated that some young children made up the spellings of the words they speak by listening to the individual sounds (phonemes) in words and then attempting to find written letters (graphemes) to represent those phonemes. ILA’s Literacy Glossary defines alphabetic principle as the concept that letters or groups of letters in alphabetic orthographies (i.e., written systems) represent the phonemes (sounds) of spoken language.įour decades ago, Carol Chomsky encouraged preschool, kindergarten, and first graders to try to write before they read because of the valuable practice they received from translating sound to print. In these stressful times, focusing on our main literacy goal for kindergartners-learning the alphabetic principle, which is the foundational skill of all writing and reading-is essential. ![]()
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