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Multisensory materials are so important for students to remember the sounds of the letters they are working with as they build their early phonemic and phonological awareness skills. Saying the letter sounds aloud while tracing the letter, or segmenting each sound in a word while placing magnets where each sound goes (beginning, middle or end of a word) helps students internalize these sounds so that eventually, students can begin to blend sounds together, and then break them apart again. These are two critical skills for emerging readers that support long term reading success. The multi-sensory tool kits are a support for students working to build strong letter-sound recognition. I often ask my students to identify, and later change, the beginning, middle or ending sound in a word. First, they need to separate each sound out before they can change or substitute the sound. The magnetic boards and magnets will help students long term by allowing them opportunities to explore letter sound relationships through multiple senses. The multi-sensory tool kits allow students to choose materials to help them hold the sounds of a word in their head (/b/ /a/ /t/ for example) while they build the more advanced skills of manipulating and deleting sounds in words (now say bat without the /b/, or say bat again, but change the /a/ to /i/-- bit). This work is extremely important for students learning to read. When students are able to touch things with a tactile sensation, such as tracing sandpaper, or bumpy mats, they can feel the letter they are tracing, and hear the sound it makes at the same time. This helps students who may be struggling to decipher the difference between two confusing sounds, such as /b/ and /p/.

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Multisensory materials are so important for students to remember the sounds of the letters they are working with as they build their early phonemic and phonological awareness skills. Saying the letter sounds aloud while tracing the letter, or segmenting each sound in a word while placing magnets where each sound goes (beginning, middle or end of a word) helps students internalize these sounds so that eventually, students can begin to blend sounds together, and then break them apart again. These are two critical skills for emerging readers that support long term reading success. The multi-sensory tool kits are a support for students working to build strong letter-sound recognition. I often ask my students to identify, and later change, the beginning, middle or ending sound in a word. First, they need to separate each sound out before they can change or substitute the sound. The magnetic boards and magnets will help students long term by allowing them opportunities to explore letter sound relationships through multiple senses. The multi-sensory tool kits allow students to choose materials to help them hold the sounds of a word in their head (/b/ /a/ /t/ for example) while they build the more advanced skills of manipulating and deleting sounds in words (now say bat without the /b/, or say bat again, but change the /a/ to /i/-- bit). This work is extremely important for students learning to read. When students are able to touch things with a tactile sensation, such as tracing sandpaper, or bumpy mats, they can feel the letter they are tracing, and hear the sound it makes at the same time. This helps students who may be struggling to decipher the difference between two confusing sounds, such as /b/ and /p/.

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Help teachers & students in your hometown this season! Use code HOME at checkout and your donation will be matched up to $100.

Ms. Webster's Classroom Edit display name

About my class

About my class

Help teachers & students in your hometown this season!
Use code HOME at checkout and your donation will be matched up to $100.