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Post by prncsfungi on Jul 10, 2008 11:39:00 GMT 8
A few of my third year junior high students are doing the Eiken interview this weekend so I was helping them practice today. They managed the questions alright but the part that never failed to stump them was reading a short paragraph aloud.
Otaku (or anyone else for that matter) do you know of any easy phonics activities I could give them? Particularly long vowels versus short vowels. They read by word recognition right now, not by soudning anything out simply because they have no clue where to begin with trying to sound. The only problem is that since I won't be able to practice with them again, these activities would have to be along the lines of self-study. Any suggestions? Thanks!
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Post by Otaku on Jul 10, 2008 12:47:24 GMT 8
The plainest way you can show your students the distinction between 'long vowels' words (CUTE) and 'short vowel' words (CUT) is to collect a bunch of these two types of words. However, your goal is to collect words that are really similar:
(SHORT / LONG) CUT / CUTE NOT / NOTE FIN / FINE CAR / CARE HAT / HATE MAD / MADE MAT / MATE KIT / KITE HER / HERE FOR / FORE CAP / CAPE CAN / CANE PAN / PANE DAM / DAME
Get a ton of these type of words together and basically teach them the 'Magic E' rule. Of course, you will need to teach them the meaning of these words. Show them that any word set up with a C V C V pattern (Consonant/Vowel) makes the first vowel say it's alphabet name. Then, erase the last vowel of each word and show them how the sound of the word changes and the mean completely changes.
Teaching them this phonics grammar point should give them the resources they need to self-practice in the future.
As for the activity you can play with this, there are a ton which I'm sure a bit of thought you can easily figure out something. Personally, I enjoy staying as simple as possible. I've noticed that if the students are REALLY learning and their brains are REALLY being challenged, the activities don't need to be that flashy because the students are excited enough being challenged. When I'm teaching phonics lessons, my activities are quite simple.
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Post by jessen100 on Jan 14, 2009 10:31:20 GMT 8
This is what ive been working on for a while now. This is my first time as an alt and ive come to realize that no one is actually formally taught to read, and it is my thought that this is the reason for poor pronunciation in many cases. since katakana cant represent many sounds if they dont know how to actually read, they wont know when they should pronounce a long or short vowel. the magic E rule, helps a lot, but isnt going to be the only thing. C and G another difficult consonant since they depend on the following letter as to how you pronounce them. realistically the only thing keeping them from starting to learn the magic E rule, is knowing the consonants, considering I remember learning it in kindergarten, I think it should be possible to teach this even to very young students as well.
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Post by Otaku on Jan 14, 2009 14:03:01 GMT 8
Jessen100,
What you said is very true. When we learned English, consonant sounds were taught from a very early age. If you take a glance to the past, you might remember those alphabet cards strung around your classroom back when you were in elementary school. Remember how every letter was associated with a picture: Apple, Bat, Cat, Dog, Elephant, etc.? That's the mnemonic technique used to learn basic individual sounds of each alphabet letter.
I think it's very possible for students, young and old, to learn individual sounds. However, teachers need to start opening their minds to new teaching ideas, rather than following the mind-numbing status quo of furigana (katakana above the English word).
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Post by junkdna on Jan 16, 2009 12:36:29 GMT 8
over the top awesome dude. The plainest way you can show your students the distinction between 'long vowels' words (C UTE) and 'short vowel' words (C UT) is to collect a bunch of these two types of words. However, your goal is to collect words that are really similar: (SHORT / LONG) CUT / CUT NOT / NOTE FIN / FINE CAR / CARE HAT / HATE MAD / MADE MAT / MATE KIT / KITE HER / HERE FOR / FORE CAP / CAPE CAN / CANE PAN / PANE DAM / DAME Get a ton of these type of words together and basically teach them the 'Magic E' rule. Of course, you will need to teach them the meaning of these words. Show them that any word set up with a C V C V pattern (Consonant/Vowel) makes the first vowel say it's alphabet name. Then, erase the last vowel of each word and show them how the sound of the word changes and the mean completely changes. Teaching them this phonics grammar point should give them the resources they need to self-practice in the future. As for the activity you can play with this, there are a ton which I'm sure a bit of thought you can easily figure out something. Personally, I enjoy staying as simple as possible. I've noticed that if the students are REALLY learning and their brains are REALLY being challenged, the activities don't need to be that flashy because the students are excited enough being challenged. When I'm teaching phonics lessons, my activities are quite simple.
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