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What is hearing syllables?
This activity is the first step in learning how to analyze the sound sequences in words.
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What is 4?
This number of sound boxes is used for the word "chips"
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What are spelling boxes (letter boxes)?
These supports help children attend to spelling in addition to hearing sounds in words.
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What are (Elkonin) boxes?
These provide a visual model within which to place sounds that are articlulated.
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What is a pencil?
Clay instructs the teacher to use this instrument when drawing boxes in the writing book.
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What is the shift to filling letters in boxes in sequence? (left to right; beginning to end)
These shift happens prior to transitioning from sound boxes to spelling boxes.
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What is slow articulation and hearing sounds in words.
Picture cards are used for this part of the learning task.
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What is "Say the word slowly", "What can you hear?" "How could you write it?" and "Where will you put it?"?
Clay recommends these 4 prompts when teaching a student to use sound boxes.
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What are: hearing and recording consonants well in sequence, have control over writing letters, and select some vowels correctly?
These 3 indicators of control over hearing and recording sounds in words help a teacher know that it's appropriate to attend to spelling.
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What is "Say the word slowly."
These concise directions are given to the child who is learning the task of slow articulation to hear sounds.
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What is "Accept what the child can hear in any order at first."
This recommendation may surprise teachers who want students to work from left-to-right or beginning to end while writing.
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What is (see bullets on p. 101)?
Clay recommends this as one way to "be very helpful" to the child who is now learning to attend to orthography.
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What is, "separated but in a natural way"?
When introducing Step 1: slow articulation and hearing sounds in words, this is the description for how the teacher producing the sounds (or saying the word).
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What is "What else can you hear?" or "What do you hear at the beginning?" or "What do you hear at the end?" or "What do you hear in the middle?"
Clay recommends this question to help the child locate other sounds in words (beyond the first one heard).
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What is "working without boxes?" or
What is "the child does most of the analysis as he writes"?
This type of work characterizes how the child analyzes words in writing later in his llessons.
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