When I first went into my first grade classroom, I was so confused when I saw my CT "tapping" out the sounds. The students seemed to be comfortable with it. It was a strange concept to me. What didn't help was that I didn't know what the terms diagraphs, blends, and glued sounds were. When I was assigned to teach Word Study the following week, I took the entire weekend learning how to tap out the words according to the sounds. This was quite difficult, but once I got it, it helped me to listen carefully to the different sounds that are part of a word.
Sound Tapping is when you use your fingers to tap sounds. The students are taught to tap their thumb to each finger while they counting the different sounds, or phonemes, in a word of the word. This should fade out when we get to multisyllabic words.
The following is a video that helped me master tapping!
Sound Tapping is when you use your fingers to tap sounds. The students are taught to tap their thumb to each finger while they counting the different sounds, or phonemes, in a word of the word. This should fade out when we get to multisyllabic words.
The following is a video that helped me master tapping!
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