Assessment for Learning Resource Bank

Web-based Learning and Teaching Support

　

Problem 1.

Students are not able to discriminate between words with some consonants, consonant blends and digraphs in listening.

Suggested follow-up actions

Model the skills of blending which involve running the letter sounds together to make a word; getting students to read aloud words with the same phonological unit (e.g. skip, skate, slide, swing) through games, rhymes and other interesting activities.

　

Provide opportunities for students to hear and focus on an identified sound and to relate it to the letter(s) e.g. by using pictures of familiar objects or by framing the relevant letter(s) in the words in a big book.

　

Use the single-syllable words (e.g. skip, skate, slide, swing) selected from texts with which students are familiar to introduce letter-sound relationship.

　

Help students use the strategy of analogy, i.e., applying their knowledge and skills to work out how to read aloud and spell an unfamiliar word by comparing it to the words they have learnt.

　

Help students make a collection of words with the focused letter-sound relationship so that they can apply their knowledge.

　

Ask students to listen to texts containing familiar words with the target letter sounds.

　

Use appropriate facial expressions, gestures, stress and intonation in storytelling and reading aloud to help students contextualize their understanding of a listening text (e.g. a story or a rhyme) so that they can develop their phonological awareness.

　

Use poems, songs and rhymes to help students recognize English sound patterns as they develop their sensitivity towards the sounds of the English Language and appreciation of the beauty of the language as well as positive attitudes towards learning English.

　

Teachers may use the following activities:

　

Information for teachers’ reference

Education Bureau, HKSARG

˙ English Language Education Section, Curriculum Development Institute

References and Resources

http://www.edb.gov.hk/index.aspx?langno=1&nodeID=2773

Educational Television Programmes

Resources

˙ Primary 3 - Listen to What I Hear

http://etv.edb.gov.hk/index-e.asp

˙ Primary 3 - Funny Bones
http://etv.edb.gov.hk/index-e.asp
　

HKedCity

˙ Phonics Activities
http://www.hkedcity.net/article/phonics2003/games/

˙ Phonics in the primary EFL classroom

http://www.hkedcity.net/article/phonics2003/teaching/5.phtml

Consonant Sound Phonics Index
www.tampareads.com/phonics/whereis/index.htm

S.C.O.R.E. Language Arts - Phonic Links
www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/Phonics_Link/phonics.html

Semantic Rhyming Dictionary
http://www.rhymezone.com/