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Fun activities for sorting syllables, seasons and more – through play!

2018-01-14 By: That Fun Reading Teachercomment

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The fun, active, sorting game my students love -that you may already have materials for!

Do your students know how to break words down into syllables? Do they know how to sort?

If you are looking for a fun syllables and seasons game for play based learning, here is an activity that my students line up for! It’s a bean bag game, be warned! As a teacher, I love the flexibility of being able to apply it to so many skills and concepts, and that it works with the many materials we already have in our classrooms.

Syllable sort:

Learning to read and write is like putting together a puzzle. Hearing the sounds in words is one of those pieces.Ā  Hearing syllables allows students to break words into parts. It is only when the parts have been broken down that the sounds within those parts can be further managed.

Materials:

Click here or on the image to take you to my premade set if you are interested in the labels, over 200 cards and more that will be discussed later. You may very well have everything you need right in your own classroom, however, or between yourself and a teaching partner! Check out this list below!

Materials needed for syllable sort game

Please note: Number images have been redone since this image was posted! Thank you for your patience while I update!

Preparation:

  1. Preteach your students about syllables. Explain that words have ‘beats’ and model how to use the cards to them first. I like to have students take turns coming up, pulling a card out of a ‘hat’, and saying and clapping out the ‘beats’ for them for a few words, then having them chime in.
  2. Next, I bring out the numbered bins and tell them we’re going to sort the cards by syllables – beats. We take a vote as to which bin will fill up first by the time we run out of cards.
  3. We practice taking turns. When it is someone’s turn, they blindly select a card, show the class, then put it in the ‘done’ pile, leaving their hands free for the beanbag. We have a pre-established mark on the floor where the underhanded ‘soft toss’ can be made from. After 3 tries, if the bean bag hasn’t made it in, the student simply places it in.
  4. Once everyone knows how to play the game, it becomes a center.

Extending the sort: Seasons and more!

The kids fly through the syllable sort, even with hundreds of cards, and I found that the tidy-up was a bit of a mindless mess!

I just added holiday, seasonal, people, places, things, and animals labels to my Syllable sort product. I put them on small envelopes, then laminated them (sealed), and sliced off their tops so they are like little, laminated folders to go in my card box.

Kindergarten, 1st grade students sort words by syllables or (items / words by season) with fun bean bag game Say it, clap it, toss it! $ #playbasedlearning #learnthroughplay #thatfunreadingteacher #tpt #earlylearning

Kindergarten, 1st grade students sort words by syllables or (items / words by season) with fun bean bag game Say it, clap it, toss it!

Now, students have the opportunity to sort again as they tidy up. This helps keep everyone focused right to the end of centers. This has been a great opportunity for negotiation and problem-solving, because I leave them to work out the ‘how’ / ‘who is in charge of what’ of putting everything away in an organized fashion.

I usually only have 4-5 envelopes of cards available to them at a time, which usually equals the number of group members tidying up at the end. At any given time of year, 1-2 batches of cards are seasonal.

Only the seasonal and holiday cards are shown here, but you get the idea!

How do you teach syllables in your classroom?

 

 

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Do your students know how to break words down into syllables? Here are some fun game and activities for sorting syllables, seasons and more using materials you may already have! Link to free follow up! #teaching #education #syllables #earlyliteracy #iteachtoo #iteach1st #kindergarten

Kindergarten, 1st grade students sort by syllables and / or seasons with this fun bean bag game, Say it, clap it, toss it!

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