Language Arts/English Curriculum Frameworks - Albemarle County ...

Word Study: Possible Learning Activities
K-5
• Oral language games and activities (phonemic awareness)
• Alphabet recognition games
• Matching/concentration games to practice skills
• Picture Sorting – Sorting pictures by similar beginning, middle, and ending sounds. The benefit of
using pictures is that students are focused on sounds only, without the ability to rely on a letter or
word family. Consequently, pictures are beneficial even when studying long vowels. Their use
should not be limited to consonants, blends, and short vowels.
• Listening games
• Syllable segmentation activities – Oral activities that help students segment words into syllables.
This skill is beneficial for the decoding process.
• Phoneme Segmentation Activities – Oral activities that help students break words apart into their
constituent sounds. This process is important for decoding and is assisted through providing
students opportunities to write using invented spelling.
• Making and Breaking Word Activities – Students break apart words into constituent sounds and
blend them back together. Both processes are vital to reading and writing.
• Word Banks – Students collect word cards of those words that are automatic (sight) words for them.
Collecting words can cease after the child has amassed 150 – 200 words.
• Rhyming activities
© ASPIRE K-12, Albemarle County Public Schools, 2003
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