Kindergarden Unit 2 Assessment and Remediation Guide

106 Kindergarten | Unit 2 Assessment and Remediation Guide

• Encourage students to use the blending motions they have learned to help them
  blend the sounds.
  This game can be varied in several ways:
  
  
  • Instead of objects, students could each be given a picture. (Perhaps
    pictures related to current unit's content!)
  
  
  • Students could be challenged by sorting objects or pictures into groups
    according to the number of phonemes as the game proceeds.
  
  
  • Once students are comfortable with the game, they can practice
    segmenting phonemes by taking turns being the one to say, “Who has the
    __?” The student with the named object gets the next turn.
  
  
  
  


• All students can practice segmenting phonemes by playing the game in reverse:
  
  
  • Say, “Who has [insert object name without segmenting it]?” For example:
    “Who has the cup?”
  
  
  • All students respond by doing a selected gross or fine motor movement
    (see Methods for Indicating Syllables in a Word for suggestions) as they
    repeat the object name broken into phonemes. For example, clapping as
    they say, “/c/ (clap) /u/ (clap) /p/ (clap).”
  
  
  • The student with the identified object sits down.
  
  
  • Continue until all students are seated. If using items with two to four
    phonemes from around the classroom, possibilities include:
    two-phoneme three-phoneme four-phoneme
    shoe
    bow (as in hair bow)
    bee
    egg
    key
    knee
  
  
  
  

rug

light

pen

mat

glue

shoes

box (Note: the sound for x

is two phonemes /k//s/)

black

flag

globe

clock

I Spy:

• Use items from around the room containing two to four phonemes.


• For example: “I spy, with my little eye, a /c/ /u/ /p/.”


• If playing with a small group, once students blend the phonemes they may go
  over to the object and touch it to indicate their answer. If playing with a large
  group, students may take turns touching the named object.


• Once students are comfortable with the game, they can practice segmenting
  phonemes by taking turns being the person to “spy” an object and name it
  broken into its phonemes.


• For other suggestions of items with two to four phonemes from around the
  classroom see the word chart for the game “Who Has?”