Help, I need SUPER creative ways to teach letters and sounds!? - Page 2

[sbgrace]

Originally Posted by mykdsmomy

I knew I could count on all the creative minds here Thank you all for the wonderful ideas. This gives me a good variety.

Boo has such a difficult time rhyming. He says things like "mommy, cat rhymes with Kuh Kuh Kuh calender!" I've explained rhyming and have given a bazillion examples over and over but he still doesn't quite grasp it. Part of it is his speech too. While he has a great vocabulary, he doesn't always use it due to him "pulling the wrong file" when he is thinking of a word.

I'm going to get the letter and word factory videos (I had them with our older kiddos but gave them away). The key with him is repetition and creativity in the delivery of new concepts.

I'll try some of the games you've all mentioned and report back

We've suspected dyslexia for my son who has some similar stuff. You might look over the warning signs just in case (my son had a lot more going on than what you mention...but I'm passing it along in case you didn't mention other stuff, you know?)
http://www.dys-add.com/symptoms.html

[tanyalynn]

One more thing you've probably already considered... my son's younger, and hasn't ever seemed inclined toward sitting down activities, and I figured it was his age, and maybe it partially is, but it turns out his vision is also pretty bad. I was pretty oblivious, apparently, because it seems that most everything is fuzzy in his world and I didn't suspect it. It'll be interesting to see if he joins his older sister in the coloring/drawing-type activities that she enjoys once we get the glasses.

[Momma Aimee]

Originally Posted by Lillian J

Leapfrog also makes more toylike hands-on products that can be played with independently, bringing in more multlsensory connections and leisurely exploration.

I personally loathe the idea of turning toys for younger children into tools for introducing letters and such long before they have any reason for them, but that's a whole other thing. For a child like yours, they might be just the trick that could lesson the tension for both of you.

Lillian

i hear good things about eh DVDs, maybe it is jus tmy kids -- but the toys do nothing. ohghhh they make noise -- we have a ton of them ... the word whammer, the fridge things (you put in one letter at a time, not three, and it says the letter adn the sound) and so on -- my dear aunt is really into them. butttttttttttttttt nope. fun toy, makes good noise, NO LEARNING. Got our first LF 2.4 years ago -- 4.5 STILL doesn't know all his letters .

i spell words with the letters, kids can't ID any of them.

[Lillian J]

Originally Posted by Momma Aimee

i hear good things about eh DVDs, maybe it is jus tmy kids -- but the toys do nothing. ohghhh they make noise -- we have a ton of them ... the word whammer, the fridge things (you put in one letter at a time, not three, and it says the letter adn the sound) and so on -- my dear aunt is really into them. butttttttttttttttt nope. fun toy, makes good noise, NO LEARNING. Got our first LF 2.4 years ago -- 4.5 STILL doesn't know all his letters .

i spell words with the letters, kids can't ID any of them.

They started out years ago with a really nice tabletop unit into which you could insert plastic letters and hear their sounds when you pressed them, or hear their names. Brought in all the senses. You could put insert cards that had short words, lay the letters on top, and press the letters one at a time to hear them and/or hear the whole word. It was really amazing - I stood there in a store and played with it at length, because I just couldn't get over how cool it was. Not noisy or obnoxious - just well done. I can't understand why in the world they abandoned that and went to all the more glitzy stuff! Lillian

[linguistmama]

Anyone know of a Spanish letter factory?

[Momma Aimee]

Originally Posted by Lillian J

They started out years ago with a really nice tabletop unit into which you could insert plastic letters and hear their sounds when you pressed them, or hear their names. Brought in all the senses. You could put insert cards that had short words, lay the letters on top, and press the letters one at a time to hear them and/or hear the whole word. It was really amazing - I stood there in a store and played with it at length, because I just couldn't get over how cool it was. Not noisy or obnoxious - just well done. I can't understand why in the world they abandoned that and went to all the more glitzy stuff! Lillian

the word wammer is cool -- 3 slots, it will do the letters and then shound the word out for you .... but the boys jsut don't seem to get it. *shrug*