Gingoog City Comprehensive National High School
Gingoog City
English Department
DEVELOPING
READING SKILLS
THROUGH SYLLABICATION
AND COLOR CODING MANIPULATIVE
By: Susan T. Aparejo
Teacher III
DEVELOPING READING SKILLS THROUGH SYLLABICATION
AND COLOR CODING MANIPULATIVE
By: Susan T. Aparejo
GCCNHS Teacher
Rationale:
The alarming and increasing number of children with Learning Disability
( LD) in our classroom today creates a problem of focus by classroom teachers in their teaching and learning process. Many of these children with LD fail to acquire reading skills, mathematical ability, organizing, sequencing , memory and writing skills. To reading teachers handling this kind of disorder, this strategy will be a worthwhile one. It can be used in one-on-one, group and peer teaching.
Background
Developing reading skills to students in the classroom is not an easy task to the teacher’s part. With the increasing number of LD, it’s a challenge to the language teachers to make their class develops comprehensive skills. Students with LD are mostly visual learners and they attract colors. Most often they are good in manipulative that will help them participate in the class activities and prolong their attention span.
Using syllabication in reading with the use of colorful manipulative is a great help for the teachers who fail the burden of slow and non-reader pupils and students in the classrooms.
SYLLABICATION
AND COLOR CODING MANIPULATIVE
What is a syllable? A syllable is a unit of pronunciation. Words can be divided into units of pronunciation, or syllables.
The six basic syllable-spelling patterns.
1. The first spelling pattern is called a closed syllable. These syllables end in consonant letters and the vowel sound is usually short. For example
Draft, napkin, boat and mittens.
2. The second spelling pattern is called an open syllable. These syllables generally end with a vowel and the...