Posing with Letter Sounds
4/1/2025 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Posing as letter shapes while practicing letter sounds is an active and engaging activity.
While learning letter sounds, students can pose their bodies in the shape of letters to connect their shape and sound. Being physically active makes this crucial literacy skill fun to practice.
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Funding for LEARNING TO READ is provided by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and the Hays Foundation.
Posing with Letter Sounds
4/1/2025 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
While learning letter sounds, students can pose their bodies in the shape of letters to connect their shape and sound. Being physically active makes this crucial literacy skill fun to practice.
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- [Narrator] Movement is a fun tool children can use when they're learning to read.
- What about a?
- Asking a child to pose themselves in the shape of each letter of the alphabet can be an effective way for them to learn letters while also being active.
- [Teacher] Show me E. - [All] Eh.
- [Teacher] Show me I.
- [All] Ih.
- [Narrator] You can try spelling different words together, like simple words, their name or a friend's name.
- [Teacher] That has that short vowel A, ready, set.
- [All] Cat.
- [Teacher] Cat, very good, friends.
- [Narrator] Familiarizing letter shapes can help young readers recognize letters when they read.
- Let's try this last one, ready, set.
- [All] Cute.
- Cute.
- Thank you for posing out those letters for us.
- [Announcer] Sponsored by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, helping build literary skills and encouraging parents and children to spend 20 minutes a day reading together.
Learning to Read is a local public television program presented by WNPT
Funding for LEARNING TO READ is provided by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and the Hays Foundation.