Phonics

I have been doing a new phonics based activity with my intervention students every week and I would be happy to share with anyone who is interested. I will try to explain as well as I can. Basically, they each get a sheet that has a bunch of words on it that all have the same chunks. For example, this week their words all have AT and ATE. They go through and highlight the chunks first, then go through and just quickly say each chunk throughout the whole page and then the last time, they go through and say the entire word. The hope is that they will get faster at this every day and they will begin to notice the chunks and sounds as readers and pull them out of words. I know that Kristin also tried this with a child she was tutoring and he did awesome! He then applied it to his reading and was really pulling out chunks and entire sounds instead of stretching out words sound by sound. Sometimes, I time the students or tap my hand to give them a beat too. Just an idea!