Teaching the alphabet, sounds and practice...

Part of being a 7th grade and now 5th grade teacher, is to make sure students are on point with what they alphabet in French or Spanish look like ( here are new letters different from English), sound like and not only to make sure they can understand the letters but that they can also use them.

I saw a resource on the blog from Eleinternacional that inspired me with the 7th grade class to make my own set with words students knew from their previous class.

I will give each student a card and they will not share until hey are given the following instructions:

Option 1
First student read the word on the card super slow and the student across writes it in is notebook. the student taking notes then spell out the word they write. Take turns ( pre existing knowledge may help a lot)

Option 2
 First student spells out the word, partner writes the word and then says the word.

As a whole class, the cards can be used with one student spelling for the rest of the class who spells on white boards. This would take a  few very confident students to help out but they love having a job don't they!