{"id":389,"date":"2021-09-20T15:32:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T19:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/?page_id=389"},"modified":"2022-02-09T16:40:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T21:40:06","slug":"three-little-letters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/kindergarten\/oral-language-kit\/oral-language-games\/three-little-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Little Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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An important aspect of oral language development is phonological and phonemic awareness. Three Little Letters is a fun game that promotes the development of phonemic awareness. The game also encourages the phoneme\u2013phonics connection and provides practise in blending sounds into a simple word. Comprehension and use of vocabulary is stressed through the creation of meaningful sentences containing the target word.<\/p>\n

Materials<\/strong>:
\n <\/span>– large letter cards<\/a>\n
\n – pocket chart to display letters
\n – \n variety of CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words (e.g., \u2018dog,\u2019 \u2018top,\u2019 \u2018fun,\u2019 \u2018sit,\u2019
\n \u2018cat,\u2019 \u2018rip,\u2019 \u2018bat,\u2019 \u2018hop,\u2019 \u2018got,\u2019 \u2018kit,\u2019 \u2018lap,\u2019 etc.)
\n Grouping: <\/strong>whole class <\/p>\n

Playing the Game<\/span>\n<\/h2>\n
    \n
  1. Choose a CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) decodable word and the accompanying letters.<\/li>\n
  2. Chant the following lyrics to the rhythm of \u201cFive Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed\u201d:
    \n
    \n

        Three little letters sitting in a tree
    \n    Singing, \u201cChildren, children, you can\u2019t read me.\u201d
    \n    Along come the children, quiet as can be
    \n    And snap a letter right out of that tree. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/li>\n
    \n

  3. Show the first letter.<\/li>\n
  4. Say the letter name twice, the letter sound twice, and the letter name again (e.g., d\u2026d\u2026\/d\/\u2026\/d\/\u2026d).<\/li>\n
  5. Then put the first letter in the pocket chart. Have students guess what the word could be.<\/li>\n
  6. Chant the second verse: \n

    \n

        Two little letters sitting in a tree
    \n     Singing, \u201cChildren, children, you can\u2019t read me.\u201d
    \n     Along come the children, quiet as can be
    \n     And snap a letter right out of that tree.<\/strong><\/p>\n
    \n <\/li>\n \n

  7. Share the next letter and repeat the letter, sound, letter pattern (e.g., o\u2026o\u2026\/o\/\u2026\/o\/\u2026o).<\/li>\n
  8. Place the second letter in the pocket chart next to the first. Invite students to use both the sounds to guess what the word could be.<\/li>\n
  9. Chant the third verse:\n

    \n

        One little letter sitting in a tree
    \n     Singing, \u201cChildren, children, you can\u2019t read me.\u201d
    \n     Along come the children, quiet as can be
    \n     And snap a letter right out of that tree.<\/strong><\/p>\n
    \n <\/li>\n \n

  10. Show the final letter and repeat the letter, sound, letter combination (e.g., g\u2026g\u2026\/g\/\u2026\/g\/\u2026g).<\/li>\n
  11. Place the final letter in the pocket chart to complete the word. <\/li>\n
  12. Have students blend the sounds together to make the word, e.g.,  \/d\/ \/o\/ \/g\/ dog!<\/li>\n
  13. Invite students to think of a sentence containing the word.<\/li>\n
  14. Share sentences and repeat the game again using another CVC word.<\/li>\n <\/ol>\n

    Note:<\/strong> Later in the year, you may want to challenge your students by using digraphs (\u2018ch,\u2019 \u2018sh,\u2019 \u2018th\u2019) as the initial phoneme. Show the digraph on the first card instead of a single consonant.<\/p>\n

    * Adapted from Building Oral Language Skills in PreK-K<\/em> by Cindy Middendorf, Scholastic, Toronto, ON, 2009, pp. 28-29.<\/p>\n \t\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    An important aspect of oral language development is phonological and phonemic awareness. Three Little Letters is a fun game that promotes the development of phonemic awareness. The game also encourages the phoneme\u2013phonics connection and provides practise in blending sounds into a simple word. Comprehension and use of vocabulary is stressed through the creation of meaningful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":368,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page_education_content.php","meta":{"protect_children":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-389","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/389\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}