Kindergarten groups post /ai/ words to a class Padlet sorted by spelling

Kindergarten (Year 1, age 5 to 6) · 40 min · 1 tablet per group

The teacher names the target sound /ai/, as in rain, and shows a Padlet wall on the interactive whiteboard with three columns headed ai, ay and a-e. Each group of four or five shares a tablet, and children take turns, with adult help, to type one word they can hear the sound in, such as train, snail, play or cake. As each word appears on the board, the teacher reads it with the class, underlines the letters making the sound, and drags any word posted in the wrong column to the right one. The session ends with the class reading down each column and spotting that ay usually comes at the end of a word. The wall is set to private, and children post words with no names or photos.

Why this is Interactive Amplify

Children respond to a sound the teacher has set, hearing it in words and posting them, without making a piece of work of their own. Padlet adds a wall that fills from every group at once and can be sorted as it grows, so the teacher corrects spellings and groups ai, ay and a-e while the words are still fresh.

Compared with

Children write words on mini whiteboards and hold them up, and the teacher copies a few onto the flip chart.

Watch out

If the wall is looked at once at the end instead of being sorted as words arrive, nothing the wall adds is used, anything that shows the words could carry the task, and this is Interactive Replace.

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