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Vowel Focus: Improving All Four Modalities

❧ Delivered a 50-minute presentation that highlighted the integration of all four-language modalities to improve skills in literacy, particularly for beginning English language learners, and ultimately, pronunciation. ❧ Exemplified classroom activities and provided materials as takeaways.

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Vowel Focus: Improving All Four Modalities

❧ Delivered a 50-minute presentation that highlighted the integration of all four-language modalities to improve skills in literacy, particularly for beginning English language learners, and ultimately, pronunciation. ❧ Exemplified classroom activities and provided materials as takeaways.

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Vowels in Reading, Listening, Speaking, and Writing

Improving all four modalities By: Heidi Laidemitt

Informed by
Pattern recognition, student autonomy, humor, literacy foundation Our development as children Particular group of students at current job Belief in connected modalities, especially for academically bound students (EAP) Vocabulary knowledge: what is KNOWING a word?

Introduction
The importance of vowels: as roots, assonance, word play, rhyme, song, poetry. I like to think of them as the core -> Name introduction. (In fact, you can extend this in reading activities) Questions for you: What do you think are the greatest difficulties in teaching vowels? Do you think some vowels cause more communication breakdown? Or, irritation in native speakers?

Where to Begin with Beginners


short versus long vowel: reading and listening comprehension After substantial practice, expect production in speaking and writing Finally, expand rules to multisyllabic words Note: I do not use IPA in the classroom. At least, not at beginning levels. However, I do use symbols from Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Within Word Pattern Spellers. (Invernizzi, Johnston, Bear, Templeton; 2009)

Honoring Literacy Development


Before Assessment
Create a day 1 spelling quiz with target short vowel and long vowel words. Use those errors to inform you and the class. Share the mistakes with the actual form. Example: Like (lik, lice, liik)

After Assessment
Create a final spelling quiz with the same words.

Have students analyze their own development.

**Its a good idea to do routine quizzes. My students like using individual white erase boards!

Activities for Beginners


1.
2. 3.

Pattern Recognition and Explicit Instruction (Activating intuitive heuristics - Kumaravadivelu, 2003)
Self-discovery assignment www.rhymezone.com In class assessment - Vowel distinction, quizzes (before, after)

4.
5.

Authentic materials: rhymes, songs, short stories


Fun activities: rhyme trains, tongue twisters, vowels with communicative meaning, texting and internet language (disemvoweling)

6.

Self-discovery practice: online games,

Note: it is important to teach exceptions (or oddball words), especially if they are common, throughout the process. For example: me, he, be, we, maybe, give, live, bread)

Activating intuitive heuristics


Explicit instruction? Or pattern recognition? Please see handout with chart and follow-up homework that blends both Rhymezone Homework: we come back and share results and start to form our own spelling rules/ observations -> Focus on spelling

Rhyme Creation
See what words students can create with patterns. Its probably to isolate some sounds at a time, especially based on their homework _ild _are _ce _ai_ _ay _y _i_e _in _igh _ore _tch _ui_ _ew _o_e _ake _old _oo_ _oy _ee_ _ue _u_e _et _ost _al_ _ge _ea_ _ow _a_e _it

Highlight Spelling Differences


For example, these spelling patterns create short-o AU __to y__n r__cket s__ n__t __gust AW d__g f__lt l__n h__l cr__l __dd O

Vowel Distinction: Multiple Modalities


Pedagogical ideas Minimal Pair Bingo
A round with the teacher (listening + reading) partner practice (speaking + listening + reading) bingo Information Gap teacher comprehension on the whiteboard or computer (speaking + reading) Follow-up spelling quizzes

American Names
are filled with long and short vowels!
http://www.babynamewizard.com/archives/2011/9/babynames-now-with-a-long-vowel-in-every-syllable

Jean, Jane, Jen, Jan, Jay, John, Joan, June


Dean, Dane, Dan, Dawn,

You can use these names in a story with follow-up Who ________? questions.
.

Using Authentic Materials


Poetry
One-two, buckle my shoe; Three-four, shut the door; Five-six, pick up sticks. Seven-eight, lay them straight; Nine-ten, a big fat hen; Eleven-twelve, dig and delve

Songs
As Tears Go By Rolling Stones It is the evening of the day I sit and watch the children play Smiling faces I can see But not for me I sit and watch As tears go by My riches can't buy everything I want to hear the children sing All I hear is the sound Of rain falling on the ground www.esl-lounge.com has songs organized by grammar focus (simple present typically seem to be easier songs)

Other Fun Activities


Production: Rhyme Trains
Tongue Twisters
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair Fuzzy Wuzzy wasnt very fuzzy was he?

Homophones
http://www.primaryresources. co.uk/english/englishA8.htm

Betty bought a bit of butter But the bit of butter Betty bought was bitter So Betty bought a better bit of Butter **I give my students recordings of me reading, too!

Vowels with communicative meaning


(Celce-Murica; Brinton; Goodwin; 2011, pg. 151) Ahhh! (satisfaction) Aw. (sympathy) Ow! (pain) Oh? (interest) Oh. (comprehension) Uh-Oh (trouble) Ew! (disgust) Oops! (mistake) Aha! (discovery) Huh? (confusion) Boo! (frightening someone) Uh-uh. (no) Uh-huh. (yes)

Disemvoweling an internet phenomenon


Have students go backwards to guess determine what the actual word is. Examples

luv OMG sum1 rly

thnx k no1 cming

c u l8r R u coming ez talk sn

gr8 nside njoy sndz gd

Th qck brwn fx jmps vr th lzy dg. (wikipedia)

Self-Exploration
http://learningenglish.voanews.com/ http://www.esl-lab.com/ (choose Easy or Medium) http://thisibelieve.org/themes/ http://www.manythings.org/listen/ http://esl-bits.net/ http://shiporsheep.com/ http://www.manythings.org/pp/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrIfQTOl97k

http://international.ouc.bc.ca/pronunciation/

Questions?

Happy to send you a copy of my slides, resources heidilaide@gmail.com Or additional ideas that I can type here

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