In this section you can find different activities such as phonological awareness, syllable division, vocabulary, sequences, and generalization. The activities rely on colorful images and various interactions such as the letter order widget, deck widget, and the whiteboard.
Here are some examples of activities you will see in this section:
The Elkonin Box activity is a multisensory activity in which the students drag counters into a box as a visual representation of sounds, syllables, rhyming, and more. Use the blue counter as a visual representation that the sound changed. Move the counters back to the top of the box when reviewing another sound, syllable, or word.
Tip: Use the bee to sweep across all of the counters as the student combines syllables into a word.
A focus of the Esperanza curriculum is memory and sequencing. In this interactive activity the students drag the months and put them in order, there is also one for the days of the week.
Tip: Use the reset activity button, when available, to repeat the activity and boost your student's practice time.
In this vocabulary activity, the students review concepts learnt and learn new concepts such as prefixes, suffixes, or roots, and keywords. We used interactive cards which the students can flip to see colorful pictures of the new vocabulary words. An important component of the Esperanza curriculum is the Cuaderno de Vocabulario or personal vocabulary notebook, which they build as they progress through the curriculum.
How to use the whiteboard?
The personal vocabulary notebook is on the Whiteboard called pizarrón de la maestra. Turn the Whiteboard (pizarrón de la maestra) pages (A) to go over all the personal vocabulary notebook sections. You can use the trash can to erase on the whiteboard (B).
Tip: The interventionist can fill out the personal vocabulary parts with students' responses on the Whiteboard (pizarrón de la maestra). When a Whiteboard (pizarrón de la maestra) is presented in an activity, we expect the students to write on their personal notebook to develop handwriting skills.
Esperanza targets auditory, visual, and decoding skills to assist students with the development of reading and writing. Here’s one example of such an activity where the students need to rearrange syllables to create words. Use the arrows on the top of the widget to turn the pages and go over all the words.
