Multiple Syllable Words Activities

Friday, I met a teacher who is having difficulty helping her students with phonics. The problem is the children have difficulty with beginning and ending sounds of words. They understand that a consonant is any letter that is not a vowel. The teacher explains that a beginning consonant is the first consonant in a word and an ending consonant is the last consonant in a word. The children need to be able to match the consonants with their sounds. The teacher uses FlinkMake to create an interactive activity on the computer providing her children extensive practice with beginning and ending consonant sounds. It takes only minutes to enter the twenty problems because the graphics are all built in to FlinkMake.


The interactive activity is graphical and engaging, with an appealing Flinkster character. Children see and hear a word in the middle of the screen. There are sets of pictures surrounding the word. They must drag a picture from each pair of pictures that has the same ending sound as the word in the middle. The activity provides immediate feedback without the judgment children often associate with their teacher’s feedback. The teacher can make twenty problems in minutes, providing the children with all the ending sounds problems they need.

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