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Vowel Tic-Tac-Toe: An Exercise to Learn Vowel Sounds

Vowel Tic-Tac-Toe: An Exercise to Learn Vowel Sounds
By J.L. Shanker|W. Cockrum
Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall

Purpose: To learn vowel sounds

Materials:  Flash cards with the following written on them

Short a Long a R-controlled a
Short e Long e R-controlled e
Short i Long i R-controlled i
Short o Long o R-controlled o
Short u Long u R-controlled u

Procedure:

Have the two students who are playing tic-tac-toe draw a flash card. Then, instead of marking each square with X or O, the student writes words that have the sound on her card. If, for example, the first student gets short o and the second gets long a, then the first must write a word with short o when it is her turn to play, and the second must write a word with long a when it is her turn to play. An example of a partially finished game is shown in the following illustration.

Partially finished game:

Variation:

This is also a good learning device if the two participants have to draw a new flash card before each move. When playing the game this way, use two different colors of chalk or pencil to help remember which words belong to each player.

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