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Oct 4, 2007
Hmmmm. The Making Words that I do is a very teacher
directed activity. There's no "how many words can you
make?" to it. First of all, we were told at a Dotty Hall
workshop to start withi the Month by Month lessons and then
supplement with Systematic Sequential Phonics words.
Actually, I sometimes use the Making More Words books
because I can find good holiday & content vocabulary in
that series. But anyway, here's how I manage the activity
in my first grade. I put all the a's, t's r's, etc that we
need in separate trays. Student helpers pass out 1 a or 2
t's, etc. While these students are passing out the letters,
the others are turning the lower case side up and then
arranging the letters in alphabetical order. Now we check
that everyone has all the necessary letters and at the same
time practice alphabetical order and upper/lower case.
Sometimes, we'll look at our letters first and I'll ask the
kids to show m...See More
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This sounds like a great way to do it. I am just starting the program with 3rd
and 4th graders, so they are very all over the map. When I say, make as many
words as you can, some kids were making 40, some 5. Some of my kids, believe
it or not, could not manipulate the letters well enough to turn one word into