For one of my tutoring students, I've been able to move on from exclusively teaching phonics. Yay! That means improvement! We still hit on rules and have 5 minutes or so on phonics, but not near the amount of time we were spending. So now that the reading is starting to improve, we have begun to do more word work with vocabulary. For a starting point on went on EdHelper because I like how you can input your own words into their activities and games.
First, we used a cut and paste activity where he simply cut glued the picture next to the picture it best defined.
First, we used a cut and paste activity where he simply cut glued the picture next to the picture it best defined.
Then, we used one of the board games where he just rolled, moved, and said the definition in his own words. I only wanted to spend less than 10 minutes on this so these two activities worked perfectly.
Next session we will use a game again and we will start with shapes before moving onto the cutting and pasting of the picture definitions. I got the shapes on EdHelper as well.