Scote the goat is a new reader, he's great at learning sight words, but hasn't made that leap to sounding it out. He has been hovering in that foggy netherland between dick and jane and go dog go for almost a year now, so i wanted to give him a nudge without bogging down his little mind with structured lessons.
Well, I saw those reading rods things, which were calling to me seductively from several catalogues, but overpriced imho. So I decided to steal the idea, combine it with two things he loves, the Gawains word game from Between the Lions (PBS KIDS, check it out for new readers- it's excellent) and legos.
All I did was take the square legos from his box (the mid size ones, not tiny) and using a sharpie, cut paper, and packaging tape I wrote small phonetic chunks on each one, and taped it to one side of the lego so they connected together left to right. (Think- C---AT, DR---OP) Then I sat and played with him for about a half an hour (important strategy to develop interest, kids will automatically enjoy something more if you are involved, its hardwired into them, I suspect.)
Now he loves this game and plays everyday, and he is finally getting the idea of blending. He especially likes to make action words (pop, stop, rip, fix) and make them heros or villians who perform the action on the other words.
Can't beat the price!
-EC
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