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My Speech Universe: February 2013

24 February 2013

If You Give A Moose A Muffin: Phonemic Awareness Book Companion

I had a request recently for a phonemic awareness book companion for If You Give A Moose A Muffin by Laura Joffe Numeroff.  You asked, so I made it!

If You Give A Moose A Muffin: Phonemic Awareness Book Companion


I love using these phonemic awareness packets with my Kindergarten students.  They have so much fun with the activities, and I love that it ties back to the book by using words straight from the book.  It often helps students to figure out words, especially in the blending section.  This phonemic awareness book companion has five different activities.  Syllable Identification, Recognizing Rhyme, Generating Rhyme, Blending Sounds, and Identifying Initial Sounds.

How Many Syllables:


Recognizing Rhyme:



Generating Rhyme:




Blending Monosyllable Words (onset-rime):




Identifying Initial Sounds:



You can find this book companion packet HERE.
Thanks so much for checking this out!  If you have any other books that you would like to see a phonemic awareness book companion packet for, please let me know in the comments area below.


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22 February 2013

Secret Code Inferences- Using QR codes

At the beginning of the year, I saw a pin on Pinterest that had a  QR code on a little sign outside of your classroom door with all of your contact information.  I made one with all of my information and hung it up.  I'm not sure if anyone has ever actually scanned it (I am in a tiny corner of the school, so not a lot of traffic), but I see it every day.  It got me to thinking about trying to use the QR code a different way.  I decided that I wanted to make an activity that uses QR codes, but what?  Well, then one day, I was working with a Super Duper Main Idea set.  It is the one that has the "secret decoder" light.  Well, my little smarties figured out that the correct answer is colored just a little differently than the other two choices.  I started covering the letters up with a sticky note.  They LOVE using the decoder light, so I really wanted something similar that they might not be able to figure out a pattern to.  Then, I thought, "What if I made my own choices using QR codes?"  An idea was born.

Secret Code Inferences


Secret Code Inferences targets five different inferencing activities.  It looks at answering the following questions using clues: What are they getting ready to do? What happened? What am I? Where am I? and Who am I?  All of the activities have 16 clue sets presented in two different ways- with a choice of answers, and without a choice of answers.  Students can check all of their answers using a QR code reader on an iPad, iTouch, or other supported device.

What Are They Getting Ready To Do?




What Happened?




What Am I?




Where Am I?




Who Am I?




I am so excited about this new activity!  I hope that many of you can use it too!  All of the cute graphics are from mycutegraphics.com.

You can get Secret Code Inferences HERE!  I hope you like the activities, and that your students do too!



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08 February 2013

No Frills Articulation

I have four different packets for my No Frills Articulation activities:

No Frills Articulation: S and Z
No Frills Articulation: TH
No Frills Articulation: L
No Frills Articulation: Sh and Ch

I also have a bundle of the above activities for 21% off of what you would pay for all four activities.  Plus, you will have access to any future No Frills Articulation activities that I post (there are two in the works).

No Frills Articulation: Bundle



Here is what a No Frills Articulation packet looks like:

Memory Cards (72 cards):
There are 12 cards for each sound in all three positions of words (initial, medial, final). 
Print two copies of the cards.  Laminate and cut out to play a memory game.


Phrase Worksheets (6 worksheets):
There are three worksheets for each sound in all positions of words. Students can read or repeat the phrases.  There is a spot to record the number of correct responses at the bottom of the page.



Sentences Worksheets (6 worksheets):
There are three worksheets for each sound in all positions of words.  Students can read or repeat the sentences.  There is a spot to record the number of correct responses at the bottom of the page.



Story Worksheets (6 worksheets):
There are three worksheets for each sound in all positions of words.  Students can read the stories out loud.  There is a spot to record the number of correct responses after each story.


My older students love these packets!  They like reading the sentences.  I have put all of the pdf's for these packets on my iPad, and it is a great way to have a portable library of words, phrases, sentences, and stories for the targeted sounds.

I hope you like these packets as much as my students and I do!

Jen





















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