FUN WITH PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS

Hi Colleagues,
These are two games I’ve tried with Infants 1 and 2. They had a ball and the activities engaged their interest and attention while treating with the instructional objective of developing phonological awareness. You can adjust these games to suit the needs of your class. Just keep in mind your students’ attention span and keep it exciting! Here we go!
It’s the rainy season! Are you ready to row your boat?
I used the familiar song ‘Row, Row, Row Your Boat’. Once they know the song, you can let them substitute different sounds for the first sound of the song . Thus, the familiar song, ‘Row ,Row, Row Your Boat’ can change to this as the students sing:
Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream                                                        

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily

Life is but a dream.

Bow, bow, bow your boat

Bently bown the beam

Berrily, berrily, berrily, berrily

Bife is but a beam.
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I’ve been thinking about how I can integrate web 2.0 technology with lessons such as these. Thus far we’ve learned about the usefulness of blogs and wikis but I think such lessons would be better facilitated through a pod or video cast. I’m eagerly looking forward to our upcoming ITC for Reading classes. After those I want to develop these lessons further. I hope you try these with your little ones. Let me know what happens or what you think.
Lee