20 JUN 2017 by ideonexus
Blending and Segmenting Sounds to Instill Phoneme Awareness
One activity is segmenting sounds and then blending them together using both real words and nonsense words. This activity gives students practice manipulating phenomes and is consistent with the research supporting stimulation of both posterior processing systems (McCandliss, Cohen, & Dehaene, 2003). Another activity is oral blending and segmenting paired with letters. This process may help students practice the alphabetic principle (the establishment of a correspondence between a phonem...15 SEP 2012 by ideonexus
Mandarin for "Riddle"
谜 = 讠 辶 米 (riddle) 迷 = 辶 米 (to get lost)"Word" plus "to get lost"; thus, a riddle is words that you become lost within. The word "to get lost" is also interesting, a combination of "path" and "rice", which reminds us of leaving breadcrumbs to find our way back.