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Word Detective Activities are any visual discrimination activities that encourage students to search other media forms to find vowel patterns.

These were the large visuals in the classroom used for spelling activities. By manipulating the letters the students were able to spell without the frustration of paper/pencil task.

The faces on this board are removable thus allowing a student to stand behind the board and put their face through, thus actually becoming a "Parts of Speech Kid". In the Stevenson program the students are taken through a dialogue about the Parts of Speech actually coming from their mouths and being their own "Parts of Speech". As the words fall from their mouths, the students are to imagine that the words end up on index cards. In order to keep the classroom neat, we must begin to sort the cards into "barrels". This begins the fundamental work on nouns, verbs and adjectives. Please follow the sequence in the Stevenson manuals.

This display represents two centers from my classroom.
CENTER ONE:
The students were assigned vowel patterns and looked for those patterns in the Sunday ad pages. When they found a pattern such as "ai" on the Sun Maid raisin box, they cut out the picture.
These pictures were then glued on various colored papers, laminated and a magnet was placed on the backs by parent volunteers, myself or and aide.
CENTER TWO:
The pictures were placed on the side of my file cabinet which had been sectioned off with masking tape into categories as seen in the picture.
Beginning with "oa" then "ai", then "ee" and "ea". Once we moved into Layer Cake words, the file cabinet was reconfigured into PBJ and L-C. Students could then stand at the file cabinet and sort the various patterns they saw on the ads into the appropriate columns.

This is a display to remind teachers to look around their room, the student's environment, and other visuals available to help students realize how often the patterns they are learning appear in their world.