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Fundamentals of reading learning toy

PHONICS READING CENTER

ACTIVITY 8 - ENDING LETTERS

How Can You Help?

• Using words from this activity, write some of them down on index cards,

leaving the ending letter off. You may wish to provide three choices

underneath the word in order for your child to choose from. Next, have

your child take a card. He or she should determine what letter is miss-

ing in order to spell the word correctly. Let your child tell you the word

that he or she has created.

• While your child is playing with the learning toy, be sure that he or she

is spelling the words out loud after choosing the correct ending letter.

Your child should be able to tell you the word.

• After your child correctly answers a question in this activity, ask him or her

to use the word in a sentence to check for understanding of the word.

ACTIVITY 9 - SPELLING

This activity explores spelling skills. Your child must rely on his or her knowl-

edge of letters and sounds in order to sound out and spell simple words.

Your child will be asked to spell the words that identify the objects on the

letter buttons. As your child presses each letter, the name of the letter will

be identified. After the final letter has been pressed, the friendly voice will

spell the entire word again and say the name of the object.

Learning Benefits for Your Child -

Learning Benefits for Your Child - The Spelling activity combines the skills

of letter and sound recognition. Your child should be able to spell simple

words using the skills taught throughout this activity.

ACTIVITY INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Press the Spelling

Spelling

Spelling touch sensitive activity but-

Spelling

ton and you will hear a short tune followed by

"Let's learn to spell words."

2. The friendly voice will ask a random question

such as, "How do you spell ape?" The ques-

tion animation will appear on the LCD screen.

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ACTIVITIES