Name That Sound
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NWF - Alphabetic Principle
Letter-Sound Correspondence The purpose of this activity is to provide students practice looking at a letter and saying the sound instantly. Students benefit from automatically knowing letter-sound correspondences so that no extra effort or attention is required to produce a sound when they see a letter.
Materials: Letter tiles. (See the Downloads area.)
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We're going to play a game where you'll tell me letter sounds. I'll show you a letter card. When you see the letter, say the sound of the letter - not the letter name - as fast as you can. Let's try it.
Watch me do it first. This is the letter T. See the letter T. I know that the letter name is T, and the sound it spells is /t/. So, I'll say /t/.
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Show the first tile, with the letter T. |
OK, let's do one together. The next letter is S. What sound does the letter S spell? /s/ So let's say /s/.
![[S]](images/28_instructionText_2.gif){kind=small}
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Correct: /s/ |
Are you ready to try one? Remember to say the sound that the letter spells. What sound does the letter M spell?
If Correct: Good. The sound that goes with the letter M is /m/.
If Incorrect: Let's look at it again. The letter name is M. The sound that
M represents is at the beginning of the word "mouse." What's that
sound? /m/
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Correct: /m/ |
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Correct: /m/ |
Let's try another one. Look at this letter. What sound goes with K?
If Correct: Great. The sound that K represents is /k/.
If Incorrect: Let's look at it again. The letter name is K. The sound that K represents is at the beginning of the word "kite." So, what's the sound at the beginning of "kite"?
![[M]](images/28_instructionText_4.gif){kind=small}
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Correct: /k/ |
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Discontinue if the student misses both warm-ups. |
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