Phonetic Games for Children: Enhancing Speech Skills
Phonetic Games for Children
Second Play. Top with 1 being very free activity, little by little, directed towards imitation of phonetic structures. The aim is to get children in Africa, in the forest, where people live in valleys, fiercely protecting themselves, to live in the jungle. Children in the Metn circles were inside a class. In the afternoon, when the teacher leaves, the circle will become the hunter. When the prey approaches the fence and yells to cross (a, b, no, ba, lu, Tumbala), if they are in town, they can repeat it, because there is no danger. Then, they repeat the crossing that they say.
Children have imitated how the teacher enters and exits the circle. The hunter (child) and when they arrive, they have to invent other yells, and they should imitate the people.
Objectives
These have phonetic and articulatory system objectives, improving the phonological skills of the children and their pronunciation of sounds.
All these games should be included in sports activities, playful gestures, accompaniment, and string displacements so that a child directs several effects. Opposition of 2 or more consonants: pt, tk, ts, …
Then, there are oppositions like s + plosive-fricative sounds (double-fame), bilabial-dental (pt), oral-nasal (pn). Then, there are finer oppositions, 2 fricative sounds (dr), 2 occlusives (pt, tk). These sounds are accompanied by body movements, for example, when there are occlusive sounds: p, t (dental), k (velar), they are marked with a stroke and smooth movements. Short sequences, for example, koko koko ti, ti koko, koko ta, ti-ti, quitate. It is done with backward movements of the elbows for “k” and forward movements of the arms for “t”. Another sequence can be: ti pa ta, ta pa ti, ti pa ti pa ti, ls pata. Children in pairs, face to face, clap their hands for “t” and clap their knees for “p”.
With older children, tongue twisters can be used, in a rhythmic and collective way, or accompanied by mimicry and gestures, for example, Pablito nailed a nail, nail…
Games of Lotus-Phonics (Children 4-6 Years)
The child is able to correctly repeat sounds, but makes mistakes when pronouncing a word that contains a difficult sound. Suggestions: in a situation that is difficult for the children, they will use words that contain difficult sounds. We can oppose different words that contain difficult sounds so that the children, through these words, correct the technical use of the child. It is a didactic phonic game. We take a lotus holder with 16 cards divided into 8 or 12 squares. In each one, we paste a drawing representing objects or animals whose name contains a specific phoneme that we are working on. We divide the class into 2, 3, or 4 teams, depending on the number of cards. Each team is given a card, and the cards are mixed face down in the center of the class. A child from each team takes a card and places it in its place on the card. The team that fills the card first wins. With the excitement of playing cards, the children automatically name the word of the drawing, stimulating the joint and intensive use of a phoneme.
Another exercise to automate the practice of pronunciation of certain phonemes or syllables within words consists of the game of making the final word of a phrase to complete it. For example, the phoneme /k/ /c/: – The child sleeps in her… bed. / / “In winter it is cold and in summer… hot.
Syllable Awareness Games and Phonics
These are done with the children to prepare them for written language, exercising their phonetic analysis capacity of the beginning of words. Initial opposition to broad progressive techniques, for example, each time we say a word that begins with the syllable “ma” (morning, hand), the children should make a sign, such as sitting down, raising their hand… each time they hear or see the syllable “ta” or a word that begins with it (cup, cover), they will make a sign. Within this is the game I Spy. You can have the children look for words that begin with, contain, or end with a certain phoneme or syllable. The game starts with 1 phoneme, then a combination of 2 phonetic elements, 2 syllables, 2 phonemes… if possible, opposing 2 phonemes, for example, tp, top-leg, kt cheese-roof. Sports activities can also be included, for example, a tongue twister: an old woman killed a cat to… The last repetition facilitates the isolation of the syllable, and the word is repeated, highlighting the syllable so that the child perceives it. Another game to make the placement of the syllable in the word visible is to paint on the board or on a sheet a square (hand, bed, branch, poor) and ask the child to put a cross in the square that represents the syllable “ma”.