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I am just a mom: a mom of three kids and one of them is hearing impaired. We are a busy family and I am a very busy mom. I want my hearing impaired daughter, Brooke, to have every advantage so I try to incorporate as many lessons and strategies into our every day life. Most of the teaching I do with Brooke is incorporated into our daily routines and parent-directed play. This blog will include some of our formal lessons but mostly it will be learning to listen in the everyday.

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Word Family Awareness

objective:
a. to listen ti initial word sounds
b. to begin to recognize word families
Points to Remember:
1. You can play this game anywhere...in the car, waiting in line, at bedtime
2. This may be difficult for you child in the beginning but keep practicing
Lesson:
1. Choose a word family to practice. For example the "....at" word family
2. Parent says, "C….at. What’s the word?"
3. Child says, "Cat."
4. Continue with the same word family to reinforce rhyming, vowel patterns and sound blending such as B....at, F...at, R...at, M...at, S...at,

Modifications:
1. Use an, ran, fan, man
it, bit, hit, sit
en, hen, pen, men
ot, dot, cot, tot, lot
ake, cake, make, sake, bake
ane, plane, cane, lane, mane
ole, sole, pole, whole, mole
2. Use your itsy-bitsy miniatures to create rhyming groups. Have your child pick up the object that you are saying. For example, say C.....at and your child picks up the cat.
3. Use rhyming picture cards if you do not have itsy-bitsy miniatures.

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