(FIFTY WAYS TO MAKE SOUNDS LIVELY)
27. Take a number of words from a list. Add some letters to the end of them to make a new word.
28. Take a number of words from a list. Add one or more letters to the start of them to make a new list.
29. See how many words in a list can be made into a new word by adding one or more letters to both the start and the finish.
30. Form two teams. Draw pictures of as many words from a list as possible. Team members score points when they name the pictures. The team with most points wins.
31. Take the words of a list and re-write them using other ways to sort them out besides sound.
32. Do a spelling test of the words in a list when other letters are added on to them.
33. Make up sentences using as many words from a list as possible. Whoever has the most words in a sentence wins.
34. Someone gives out a sentence and omits one word from the list. Others write down what they think is the missing word.
35. Someone gives out a sentence and omits more than one word from the list. Others write down what they think are the missing words.
36. Make up ten sentences using the same word from a list. Show the verb in each sentence and the subject.
37. Make up ten sentences using ten words from the list. See if you can include an adverb in each sentence, that is, a word to show “how”, “when”, “where” or “why”.
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Note:
Sounds Alive (52 pages) consists of about 2,000 one syllable words, set out into lists with the one vowel sound. Many people do not know the vowel sounds, let alone how they combine with other sounds.
Is this an exaggeration? To illustrate, recently virtually none of the international students in a literacy class at tertiary level (!) could say what a vowel is. How many Australian born students have a similar problem?
The whole of "Sounds Alive" is based on the vowel sounds.
By sheer repetition of the one sound in its many forms in one syllable words, students would at least be able to sound out these words - which form the basis of bigger words. They would increase their vocabulary as well - and could learn some grammar along the way.
It seems many people are averse to teaching or learning to read by sound. This booklet offers a range of "games" with the vowel lists so they can be worked through more comfortably.
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