CZECHOSLOVAKIA
This word has a pronunciation that most students will not be able to master at a young age.Words such as these will also create a lot of stress for a child. However, a word such as:
MISUNDERSTANDING
can be broken down so the students can understand how to pronounce the word as well as what the word means. As a teacher you can ask the students to pull out pieces of the word that the will understand. For starters, understand can be pointed out and most students will recognize that the word means a person realizes and comprehend what is going on. The students will next pull out mis which is similar to miss which means failure to come in contact with something. The students will then notice the ing. Now the students can make a meaning of the word and also be able to pronounce it with some practice.
With practice of this way to learn words, students will soon be able to master pronunciation of words they don't know without even realizing it. One day your students will be able to pronounce Czechoslovakia without hesitation.
Do you think that this tool will help children with pronunciation as well as with the words meaning? How would you make this task a little bit more fun for your students?
I think that this tool will greatly help children with pronunciation as well as word meanings. I really liked where the teachers had the students point at certain letters and say the sounds of that letter to help lead them to the whole sound of the word. I would try to ask the class if they see a familiar word within an unfamiliar one and see who can find it first.
ReplyDeleteYou make a great point that sounding out word is very monotone, boring, and will not hold young mind's attention. I did not think about that when reading this week's chapter and article. You used great examples when you said misunderstanding can be broken down was as the word above your picture is near impossible to even a teacher to sound out. I feel that sounding out words should still be used in the learning environment, but that coaching students is also a great way to keep understanding and comprehending new words at an interested level instead of just simply sounding out letters.
ReplyDeleteGreat examples here, Elizabeth.
ReplyDeleteI think this is great tool to help children learn words that are unfamiliar to them. By breaking the word down into more manageable parts, the child is using not only using their own word bank, but applying these words they know in order to gain meaning of the unfamiliar word. By breaking the word down, the child is learning a great way to attack other unfamiliar words that they may come across, which will in the future help them enhance their reading skills.
ReplyDeleteI think you're right! These tools will definitely help students to learn the meaning of words rather than just the pronunciation. When I was little I knew how to say a ton of words, but I didn't use them correctly in context. I think a lot of young students have gone through this too. With these new techniques we can teach the students to look for words they already know the meaning of, and then add on to them to form new words and meanings.
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