Teaching a Letter and its Sounds

Amanda Leger | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, KS

This video shows one way to teach letters and sounds, using "x" -- a letter that breaks the rules! The students learn that it usually makes the /ks/ sound, but it can also sound like /z/ in "xylophone" and /ex/ in "x-ray." The teacher and students also sound out several words that contain the letter "x."

[Intellakids]

Great example of classroom management and how to keep students attention 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[superscion]

You are a fantastic- e'X'traordinary, teacher!

[ChibiRiku]

Ma'am, you are Thank you so much for all that you

[janetwashington]

I absolutely loved this lesson. Thank you!!!

[kimadams]

You did a great job of holding the attention of your students. This was a good lesson. I have a suggestion for blending the word “box”. Be careful not to add the schwa sound to make “buh” but clip the sound; /b/. You don’t want students to add the schwa sound to letters or it could cause confusion when blending the sounds to read the word.

[KnowledgeandUnderstanding]

You're a good teacher 😉👍 competent

[ResetKeisha]

Thank you! I just ran across this as a first year! I love this.

[educationalvideos]

Thank you very much for this video maam. It helps me how to teach more effectively.😊

[kerimadsen]

"x-ray" actually does have the /ks/ sounds in it. These are the sounds in the word: /e/ /k/ /s/ /r/ /ay/ Right there in the middle is /ks/. 😬 I just thought I'd mention this as it was confusing for me, so I could see how it has the potential to confuse a young child who is just learning and hears the /ks/ sounds in the word "x-ray."

[lorettamuhammad]

Great lesson! Is this a Montessori classroom?

[zakzeus.shuufHunaak]

amaxing little wizards and witches 💋💋💋💋😍😍😍😍🌈🌌🌹❤️

[red]

0:52 I wonder what she can say to him? 😂😅🙈