Smart+Notebook

Students will discriminate between beginning and ending sounds.

Content: THe skills your project will address. Verb: What do you want the students to do? Noun: How will the Smart Notebook be used?

My focus of this project is beginning and ending sounds of words. We begin with a review of vowel sounds and a discussion of the beginning sounds. Students will then manipulate their way through the Notebook discovering if they know the beginning or ending sounds. If it is correct, it will link them to a happy face that says "Excellent". If they are incorrect, it will link them to a frowny face that says "Try Again". Students have to blend, stretch, and sound out the words to identify the beginning sounds. The students will click the proper letter for the beginning or ending sound of the picture.

Students will then be given a phoneme, such as /s/, and they will have to use the gallery to find more pictures that begin with that sound. To modify for my onlevel students, they will find ending sounds. My advanced learners will sort beginning and ending sounds on a blank page and then we will compile into one notebook and share with the class.