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SpelLBOUND

• Children work in groups of 6.
• Teacher calls out a 3 or 4 letter word using short
vowel sounds.
• Groups must build the letters of the word they are
spelling.

SOUND

BRICKS

In teaching phonological awareness you can
make use of sound boxes to helps children count,
pronounce, blend and segment syllables in spoken
language.

• Learners work individually and place their 6 bricks
on top of their desk.
• On a piece of paper or on a white/chalk board
draw 2 / 3 / 4 boxes. Each box represents one
phoneme or one sound. The idea is to stretch
out words, identify similar or different sounds and
then guess the spelling.
• Below each box place a DUPLO brick.
• For every sound the child hears in the word he /
she will move the brick into a box. E.g. The word
sheep has 3 sounds (sh - ee - p) so the child will
place a brick into 3 boxes and be able to separate
or stretch out the word.

Q: How many sounds (phonemes) can you hear
in the word sheep?

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