Sunday, October 30, 2011

Brainstorming the /th/ Sound

This week we learned the /sh/ and /th/ chunks, which proved to be a bit of a challenge for some of my students. Since this was a totally new concept, (two letters that when put together.. make a totally new sound) I started off the week by letting the students brainstorm words that have the /th/ sound. I made this cute little buddy, and named him Therman the Thinker! Therman only likes to think about things that say /th/ and we discussed that the /th/ sound can sometimes come at the beginning of the word (THink), but sometimes it can come at the end of the word too (baTH).
To the right is an example of two students' /th/ words. I love allowing my students time to brainstorm things like this and seeing the way their minds work when I read what they've done!

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