Pack Two
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Wikki Stix
Wikki Stix are fun and colourful, soft and pliable. They are a tactile tool to develop fine motor skills in the fingers and hands. Fine motor skills involve the use of the small muscles in the fingers, hands and arms and are essential for performing everyday skills, such fastening buttons and zips, using a knife and fork and later, writing.
Wikki Stix make a great alternative to screens when you’re out for dinner with the family. For more ideas visit our Pinterest Wikki Stix board.
44 English Phonemes and Sample Words
Phonemic awareness refers to the specific ability to focus on and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. Phonemes are the smallest units comprising spoken language, eg. the word ‘mat’ has three phonemes: /m/ /a/ /t/. There are 44 phonemes in the English language, including sounds represented by letter combinations such as / th /.
The phoneme chart contains the 44 sounds of spoken English and sample words that provide an example of correct pronunciation.
Click the button below to download the Phonemes and Sample Words worksheet PDF.
Verbalising & Visualising
Visualising and verbalising is a strategy created by Nanci Bell, an expert in the treatment of language and literacy disorders. It teaches children comprehension and language processing to build pictures in their minds as they listen, and later, as they read. Creating mental images when reading can greatly assist comprehension. Proficient readers create visual images while they read.
Visualisation also helps with remembering things. Once children have seen an image, it makes it a lot easier for them to recall it later. Further, when they draw it, it becomes ingrained in their minds.
There are three steps to visualising:
- Imagining. Close your eyes and think about what I am saying. Think about colours, shapes, sizes, characters, where it is happening, and what the characters are doing.
- Visualising. Draw what you saw in your head when you imagined the words.
- Verbalising. Explain (or answer questions about) what you imagined and visualised from the words I said.
You will find a Verbalising & Visualising PDF available to download at the bottom of each pack.
Click the button below to download this pack’s Verbalising & Visualising PDF.
Books
Click a book below to download its activity sheet.
