How to make a word slide

Here are the materials needed to make a word slide:

• Index cards or pieces of heavy paper
• Scissors or sharp-pointed cutting instrument

1. Cut an index card or similar piece of paper into four short pieces.

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2. Print on each piece of paper the beginning and ending letters of a word that could be completed with any of several vowels. Leave plenty of space to insert a vowel.

   Example:

   b _ t could be completed with a, e, i, or u

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3. Print the vowels the long way on a narrow strip of card or paper that will fit in the space left on the first card for the vowel.

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4. Cut two slits in the first piece of paper as follows:
   • Lengthwise
   • Above and below the space left for the vowel.

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5. Fit the narrow strip into the slits so that one vowel at a time shows between the letters written on the card.

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6. Slide the strip to make a word with each of the vowels.

• Vary the

  • consonants or consonant clusters rather than vowels
  • beginning or the end of words, or
  • syllables within words.

• Task module: How to make a word slide
• In task module: Making teaching aids
• In task module: Developing materials to teach reading and writing
• In task module: Developing instructional materials, by Trudy K. Stewart, Leah B. Walter (contributor), and Trudi C. Hunt (contributor)
• In task module: Developing an instructional program, by Kenneth A. Boothe (contributor), Patricia M. Davis (contributor), Trudy K. Stewart (general editor), Leah B. Walter (contributor), Glenys Waters (contributor), and Adelle R. Walter (illustrator)
• In task module: Implementing a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler)
• In modular book: Implement a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler) and Leah B. Walter (compiler)
• In bookshelf: Literacy

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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