I enjoyed reading the Cunningham and Cunningham article, Making Words: Enhancing the Invented Spelling-decoding Connection, this week. What stood out to me in the article was the making words section. I thought it was cool the way they took small parts of a word and had the children make other words.
Believe it or not this reminded me of a Full House episode. In the episode, the young Michelle Tanner can not read and gets very discouraged. Her older sister DJ sets her down and tells Michelle that she can do it. She writes the word AT on the board and Michelle knows that word. Then she adds a C in front and asks Michelle to sound it out. Michelle realizes it says cat. DJ then gives her a few more examples such as hat, bat, and sat. Michelle gets so excited because she realizes that reading is not as hard as she thought.
So, not only can this method expand a student’s learning but it can help boost a student’s confidence when beginning to read.
"I CAN read!!" :)
This reminds me of the activity we did in class where we formed many new words out of one long word. Activities such as these are fun ways to get children to learn new words and practice spelling words!
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