- One-inch cubes are perfect.
- Use four or five different colors.
- You’ll need three or four blocks of each color.
- Play these at a table, or on the floor.
Learn to pronounce the sounds correctly.
Can your child play 'What's New? First or Last?' Lists 1 thru 6? Then let's play:
What Changed? One to Three Sounds
1. Ask your child to show you, with blocks, a one-to-three sound word. (Nonsense words are fine!) For example:
- You say ‘shoe’ -- and the child lines up two different colored blocks
- (sh-oe = 2 sounds, shown by 2 blocks)
2. Then add or take away a sound; or change one of the sounds. For example:
- You could say “If this [block arrangement ] is ‘shoe,’ show me ‘show.’”
- (You changed the second sound: sh-oe --> sh-ow.)
- Or instead, you could say “If this is ‘shoe,’ show me ‘loo’”
- (You changed the first sound: sh-oe --> l-oo.)
- Or you could say, “If this is ‘shoe,’ show me ‘shoop.’
- (You added a sound at the end: sh-oe --> sh-oo-p.)
- Or you could say, “If this is ‘shoe,’ show me ‘oo.’
- (You took away the first sound: shoe --> oo.)
3. The child changes the block pattern -- adds, takes away, or changes one of the blocks-- to show which sound has been added, removed, or changed.
You say . . . |
Child places block: |
| so |
s - o: 2 blocks |
| If that says 'so' show me 'no' |
n - o: changes 1st block |
| If that says 'no' show me 'noze' |
n - o - ze: adds a 3rd block |
| If that says 'noze' show me 'nize' |
n - i - ze: changes middle block |
| If that says 'nize' show me 'nime' |
n - i - me : changes 3rd block |
| If that says 'nime' show me 'lime' |
l - i - me: changes 1st block |
| If that says 'lime' show me 'shime' |
sh - i - me : changes 1st block |
HINT: S-t-r-e-t-ch the ‘stretchy’ sounds at first to help your child learn the game: “Sh-h-h-h-o-o-o-o --> Sh-h-h-h-o-o-o-o-p.”
More on this topic: The Reading Treehouse -> THE FLOOR: Phonemic Awareness
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