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Submitted by CHE KHADIJAH ABDUL (10-10-2012)
The letter 'Rr' sound
Initially I had some difficulty trying to teach this sound to my new students.
TIPS
1. Get the children to wash their fingers first.
2. Then, I will show and let the kids feel for themselves with their own fingers, where their tongues should be inside their mouth.
3. Then have them curl their tongues.. fun to see these of cos.
4. OK, now they have some idea of what to do with their tongues..
5. I will then play 3 video clips for them to listen intently;
a. A cock crowing (see how its throat move to let out the sound)
b. A tiger roaring (they get to hear that vibration)
c. 2 cats growling at one another in a fight. (the rrrrrrr)
6. Children love animals, and if they have cats at home, ask them to really hear the sounds coming out as their cats fight.
7. By the end of this lesson, the students will be growling and crowing about gleefully.... and most will master the "r" sound in just this one session.
Good luck with your kids..
Always
KHADIJAH
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Hello Kay,
We let the kids participate, actually they will come up with many creative ideas, like the sounds of of car.
There was once, a crow on a branch just outside my window and it was cawing so loud..one of the kids alerted us to the sound and the whole class was laughing..car, car, car.
We should always encourage the kids to use all their 5 senses to help them with learning.
Cheers
When I taught children needing speech therapy - we had mirrors so children could see how and what they were doing when making the sounds. Ants on the Apple was first thing I used with speech students as some of the sounds/pictures really help eg helicopters hovering hhh (sound of the helicopter when you say h h h)balls bouncing bbb
My children love car racing on a track (my son,s)
they make the engine noise rrrrrr
Thanks for sharing this.
My son has recently been going to speech therapy and as a Teacher, I did not fully realise just how important the actual 'mouth mechanics' of making each sound is.
Thanks for bringing this further to our attention.
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