ABA
Teaching Ideas
Grammar, Reading and Spelling
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Teach reading incidentally! The DVDs below have been great help for my son.
Jolly phonics DVD
Alphablocks volumes 1 and 2
Headsprout Early Reading
Headsprout Early Reading
My son does this program and it has been great for receptive language, sound blending and developing reading skills. It is very repetitive which he actually really likes but the episodes change and you travel through the 80 lessons with cute little characters that your child gets to know well.
Although the whole program is 30 hours, it has taken my son a lot more than this as we only move him on once he has mastered an episode.
Word to picture matching
Word to picture matching
The criteria is 20 pictures/words but I did the following categories:
1- Consonant-vowel-consonants- CVCs (e.g. bed, bin, bat- as many as were familiar to my son)
2- Short words (e.g. book, cake, bike)
3- Longer words (e.g. balloon, computer, piano)
4- Colours
5- Shapes
6- Numbers- 1-20 and adhoc numbers between 21 and 100 (e.g. 24, 27, 30, 32, 35, 40)
7- Oxford Reading Tree Characters
We did over one hundred and we do the matching both ways round (word to picture and picture to word). We keep then in separate packs but mix them up too.
Links to on-line resources
Reading comprehension
I have produced reading strips to go with pictures of my son's reading books so we work on comprehension.
Whenever he reads a book we make sure he is not just reading by memory and we explore the pictures in different ways so he learns to interpret what he reads. These pictures are from Usborne (Very first reading) and The Oxford Reading Tree (level one).
I put them in sets and therapists work with the different ones as he masters them.
242 CVC words! They will be helpful at the initial stages of reading.
Decoding words
We have had success using separate phonics to teach my son to decode words. This way it is easier to separate the sounds and practice them in isolation, then put them together to form words. Remember to agree on an sd for everyone to use when you separate de sounds and when you put words together.
By planting a firm phonics foundation your child should be able to decode any word, even if it doesn't make sense.
Spelling monster and letters made of milk caps (From Apple Mapple, parent)
Just made a set of "Milk cap letters" - these are very useful DIY letters - Could be used for learning phonics, cvc words, matching uppercase to lowercase letters, feed the hungry monster game and could be combined with many other learning ideas!
If interested, you can get the printables and recipe here -
http://www.themeasuredmom.com/make-your-own-easy-and-beautiful-milk-cap-letters-for-tons-of-learning-fun/
Just got the monster ready - with the help of an old shoe box and a bit of washi tapes - This could be paired with the milk cap letters or any other learning printables to play "Feed the monster game".
The monster printable could be found here - http://chitchatandsmalltalk.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/shape-monster-book.html
Spelling worksheets (From Apple Mapple, parent)
Got this awesome FREE resource from Twinkl - cvc words phonemes frames
1. Could be used along with wooden / plastic / foam / milk cap letters to practise phonics and encourage children to read.
2. Could be laminated and used to practise writing (with dry erasable markers)
For free download of this resource, please visit -http://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-l-620-cvc-words-phoneme-frames
Joint sounds
Remember to add words containing the sounds to give them context if the child needs additional support to memorise them. E.g. Ea- sea, tea, pea, leaf
I make word flash cards and strips so my son can form words and practice sounds at the same time. We only do it when we need to teach the more tricky sounds.
Sight words
Days of the week and Months of the year
Word that begins with sound (a, b, c, ...)