Hand gestures
What is the opposite of blending?
How many weeks of Heggerty lessons are included in the book?
35 weeks
Define segmenting:
Taking words apart into individual sounds or syllables.
The roller coaster hand gesture is used for which Heggerty skill?
Identifying medial sound
How long is each lesson?
10-12 minutes
Define phonemes.
Individual sounds
The process of pulling all the sounds together is called.....
Blending
Which grade levels can benefit from Heggerty?
preK, Kindergarten and early childhood classes
What is onset-rime?
The first initial sound in a word.
When the teacher asks children to identify ending sounds, what hand gesture do the children use to accentuate the ending sound.
A pull across their chest and a raised hand in the air as they say the end sound.
True or False: Heggerty can be taught in a small group.
True
When using the Heggerty program... what does CHOP mean?
When students break words into parts or sounds. It is a hand gesture.
Show how a teacher uses hand gestures to substitute a sound in a word.
Removes a hand and replaces it with something else.
If a child has phonemic proficiency, a child is able to do four Heggerty skills.... name those skills.
Isolate sounds.
Blend sounds.
Manipulate sounds.
Segment sounds.
Clarify the difference between phonemic awareness and phonics.
Phonemic Awareness is: Oral and auditory
Phonics is: Visual and auditory... they work with print.