LESSON STEPS: MULTI-SENSORY LESSONS - STEP 2: visual SKILLS
The Multi-Sensory Lessons Begin
Step 2: Visual Skills
There is not necessarily a specific order for presenting instructions to teach letter recognition but here are suggestions for starting:
- Use large sheets of paper, pipe cleaners, clay strips, chalk with chalkboards, white boards with pens, etc.
- Show formation of the letter with the preferred penmanship form.
- Use a different color for each stroke when the line “breaks.”
After displaying the letter formation, Ready Reading shows the students how they can turn the letter into a picture of something to represent the letter sound. You will find miscellaneous pictures on the market but the aim of the Ready Reading pictures in the Teacher's Manual is to have them easy to draw so that the students can do it themselves, following step-by-step as the teacher draws examples.
- Turn capital “E” into an elephant
- Turn lower case “e” into a decorated egg.
- Choose a student picture from each lesson to display for future reference.
- Display a letter picture when the lesson is presented. Limiting the letter display for each lesson as it is learned, versus displaying the alphabet all at once, provides specific focus.
- If your students have already learned the alphabet names and the letters are already displayed in alphabetical order, the new picture can be placed in the array when the sound is studied.
Next we will go over Kinesthetic/Tactile Skills. As you will see, Auditory, Visual, and Kinesthetic/Tactile Skills are so intertwined that you actually work with all of them at the same time.