{"id":641,"date":"2021-10-12T12:54:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T16:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/?page_id=641"},"modified":"2022-03-25T14:12:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T18:12:54","slug":"were-going-on-a-mystery-trip","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/grade-1\/oral-language-kit\/oral-language-games\/were-going-on-a-mystery-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Going on a Mystery Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"Section-One\" class=\"section\">\n\n\t\t<p>An important aspect of oral language development is phonological awareness. We\u2019re Going on a Mystery Trip is a fun activity that promotes the development of phonemic awareness. The game provides practice with rhyming words and beginning, middle, and ending sounds. It also incorporates movement by letting students snap their fingers, slap their knees, or clap their hands as they chant the response.<\/p>\n\t\t<p><span class=\"Blue_hi-lite_noItalics\"><strong>Materials:<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"Blue_hi-lite\"><br>\n\t\t<\/span>&#8211; none<br>\n\t\t<span class=\"Blue_hi-lite_noItalics\"><strong>Grouping:<\/strong><\/span> whole class or small group <\/p>\n\t\t<h2 id=\"Playing_the_Game\"><span class=\"heading2\">Playing the Game<\/span> <\/h2>\n\t\t<ol>\n\t\t<li>Start the game by choosing two words that begin with the same sound and a third word that does not begin with the same sound.<\/li>\n\t\t<li>Explain to students that they have to listen carefully to find the word that doesn\u2019t fit and, therefore, can\u2019t be packed for the mystery trip. Words that can be packed begin with the same sound.<\/li>\n\t\t<li>Lead the following chant:<br>\n\t<blockquote>            \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t<p><strong>Teacher:<\/strong> We\u2019re going on a mystery trip.<br>\n\t\t<strong>Students:<\/strong> We\u2019re going on a mystery trip.                    <\/p>\n\t\t<p><strong>Teacher:<\/strong> What are we going to pack?<br>\n\t\t<strong>Students:<\/strong> What are we going to pack?                <\/p>\n\t\t<p><strong>Teacher:<\/strong> A cat, rug, and cap<br>\n\t\t<strong>Students:<\/strong> A cat, rug, and cap.                    <\/p>\n\t\t<p><strong>Teacher:<\/strong> But only two of these things can fit.<br>\n\t\t<strong>Students:<\/strong> Only two of these things can fit.                <\/p>\n\t\t<p><strong>Teacher:<\/strong> Which one doesn\u2019t belong?<br>\n\t\t<strong>Students:<\/strong> Which one doesn\u2019t belong?                <\/p>\n\t\t<p><strong>Students:<\/strong> rug <\/p>\n\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t<li>Continue playing the game using other word pairs that begin with the same sound and a third word that doesn\u2019t begin with the same sound.<\/li>\n\t\t<li>Extend the game using other criteria such as: rhyming words, words that end with the same sound, and words that have the same sound in the middle.<\/li>\n\t\t<\/ol>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important aspect of oral language development is phonological awareness. We\u2019re Going on a Mystery Trip is a fun activity that promotes the development of phonemic awareness. The game provides practice with rhyming words and beginning, middle, and ending sounds. It also incorporates movement by letting students snap their fingers, slap their knees, or clap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":612,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page_education_content.php","meta":{"protect_children":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-641","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/641","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=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/641\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}