Word Games with Manipulatives
Overview
Incorporating movement with sound, rhythm, and/or rhyming activates even more mental schema.
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Use It in the Classroom
Watch how this teacher incorporates rhyme and tangibles to support the development of Phonological Awareness. As learners practice manipulating sounds to rhyme words, they use their Working Memory and apply their Alphabet Knowledge.
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Factors Supported by this Strategy
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Students activate more cognitive processes by exploring and representing their understandings in visual form.
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Free play supports learner interests and allows more complex social interactions to develop.
Reading aloud helps students to hear and practice reading and fluency skills.
Pretending allows students to step back from a problem or task and think about it from multiple angles.
Response devices boost engagement by encouraging all students to answer every question.
Providing students a voice in their learning is critical for making learning meaningful.
