Have you ever used a Vowel Tree in your school room? A Vowel Tree helps children develop the pre-reading skill, word blends. If a Vowel Tree is new to you, here are a few tips.
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Start by placing one consonant from your moveable alphabet, such as ”r” in front of “a”. Say “ra” to the child.
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Move down the trunk until you’ve demonstrated all of the word blends: “re”, “ri”, “ro”, “ru”. Let the child take a turn.
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Start by providing them with a limited amount of consonants. As they grow ready for the next step, they can start selecting any consonant to create their own word blends.
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After they have the two letter word blends down pat, the Vowel Tree can be used for early reading. Add a “n” to the end and you have “ran”. It’s not as important that they create correct words, but that they are sounding out the correct phonetic sounds.
Thanks so much for the printable! It looks so cute and is such a good work for “pre-readers.” Definitely saving this one for our school room :) And yes–everyone–KINKO’S is where it’s at printing wise!! Such great quality.
Such a fun activity.
Thank you for sharing.
patty
Thanks so much for sharing!
Great idea!
How adorable! Thanks for sharing! :-)
Wow! Lori this is perfect! I think this would be prefect for Bunny! Thanks so much for sharing! Gald to have you back blogging! ;)
What a cool tree! Love it!
Thank you so much for your creation. I will be using it in my kindergarten for the rest of the year!
You’re so welcome! Happy teaching. :)
thank you so much for this amazing vowel tree. I will use it for sure in my Montessori class.
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Thank you my daughter is going to love this! Not sure if the last comment went through, sorry.
You’re very welcome! :)
Thank you. Great idea. I will use in my 3-5 classroom.
You’re welcome!
Such a cute idea! I will use it in my kindergarten classroom, however I will do it the opposite way that you did. I will have the children make “word families” with them. They can start with the vowel and add the ending consonant (ex.: _an) and then they can make rhyming words from that: can, fan, tan, etc. Rhyming is a critical phonemic awareness skill that children need to read. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you like it and can use it. Thanks for sharing another great way to use the vowel tree. I agree, rhyming is such a critical skill!
Love the tree, as a way to practice blending sounds!
Thank you Diane! You’re so sweet to say so. :)
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This is such a cute idea, Lori! Thanks so much for sharing your free printable! I featured your post and photo in my Montessori-Inspired Arbor Day Activities post at http://livingmontessorinow.com/2013/04/22/montessori-monday-montessori-inspired-arbor-day-activities/
Thanks for featuring it Deb. It means a lot to me. :)
I just featured your awesome free printable as the Free Printable of the Day at the Living Montessori Now Facebook page and on Pinterest at http://pinterest.com/debchitwood/free-printable-of-the-day/!
That’s awesome. Thank you for all your support.