Teaching kindergarten students how to sound out three letter words

Kindergarten students ages 5-6

Topic- How to sound out simple three letter words.

Teach the topic or skill with the intention of student's positive transfer of their learning. I will teach kindergarten students how to sound out simple three letter words by using a specific technique. For the word such as log, they will say each sound a point to their shoulder for the sound of l, their elbow for the sound of o and their wrist for the sound of g. After they do this a couple of times they will begin to start at the shoulder and slide their hand down their arm to make the sounds fluently.

Teach the topic or skill to facilitate student's near transfer of their learning. Students will be able to use this same technique when sounding out other three letter words such as pot, hog, hat, tap..etc. This really helps students to fluently blend words and not sound like a robot when they sound them out.

Teach the topic or skill to facilitate student's far transfer of their learning. Students begin in kindergarten learning sight words. Many of these words have to be memorized. Some can be sounded out but we try to teach the students to memorize these and not to try and sound them out although some can be. This can be confusing to them because all year we concentrate on sounding words out and know we tell them that these can't be sounded out so it can be hard for a 5 year old to understand!

Teach the topic or skill to prevent student's negative of their learning.Once students have mastered sounding out three letter words we then move on to four letter words. Alot of these words have blends such as (th, sh, ck) and many have sneaky (e) at the end of the word that makes the vowel say its long vowel sound like in the word cake. Students cannot sound out these words, if they do they won't make sense and this is hard for them to understand. Students are taught rules with words with blends and combinations to help them when they sound them out.