This Activity is a simple "Learning Through Play" Activity - which is very cheap, easy to set up at home and can appeal to a range of ages because the items are very tactile and fun to play with!
The "Clip The Missing Letter Sounds" Activity is one fun way I've adopted in teaching my 3yo to hear and identify beginning, middle, and ending sounds. For the Activity, all you need is Home laundry or Craft pegs, toddler scissors & this printable worksheet (available to download here for free), Pegs, and Toddler Scissors.
To use the Worksheets as cards (as i have done here) just download the worksheets, print out the 6 pages, laminate each page and cut each page into 4 squares. If your preschooler is able to manipulate a toddler safety scissors, involving them in cutting the pages into 4 squares can be a lot of fun - while still building their fine motor skills!
....you should end up with 24 different "word cards" like this
You could use these worksheets / Cards as an activity for early spellers, but that wasn’t my intent because J isn’t spelling yet, beyond his name and a few words like bat, cat, Rat lol (basically the "at" family).
So instead, I've used this Activity to focus on blending words, stretching the words out and really listening for the missing sound. He easily identifies the missing sounds when it's the first or last letter of the word that's missing - but those middle words give him trouble (and that's fine!!)
the ending and beginning sounds are usually easier for beginners to the exercise / younger toddlers
Basically, what we do is, I ask J to identify the image, stretching the letter sounds slowly. Then we look at the location of the missing letter and then repeat the sound of the word again - with emphasis on the missing letter. Then I ask him if he's able to chose the correct letter from the choices on the bottom of the card - and then clip it with a peg.
Even though simple to us, the concentration and fine motor skill development necessary in order to select the correct letter, grip the peg and then clip it - can be quite an exercise for toddler hands.
I was pleasantly surprised at how well he did with these, especially since we have only ever done this exercise once before now.
What skill is he learning / developing as he plays??
Physical: fine motor control and co-ordination skills, using small tools, hand-eye co-ordination, grip and release exercises, etc.
Literacy: phonic sounds, letters of the Alphabets, blending words, spelling, and so on.
J and I had a lot of fun doing this Activity, and I hope you try it with your Little One(s) at home too - indoors or outdoors!
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Love & Light,
Oby O.
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