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Support Materials for Students with Special Education Needs
English K–6
Reading
Manipulating
The teacher:
• models manipulating letters in a word, eg the teacher writes the word ‘set’ on the board
and says ‘The word is set. I take away the /e/ and write an /i/. The new word is sit.’
• provides students with practice manipulating letters in words in small groups by asking
students to look at a word and, for example:
– delete an onset to say the rime separately, eg ‘The word is black. Now take away
the bl. What is left?’
– delete an onset to make a new word, eg ‘The word is shout. I take away sh.
What is the new word?’
– delete a rime to say the onset separately, eg ‘The word is scream . Now take away
the eam. What is left?’
– delete an onset and add a different onset to the rime, eg ‘The word is bring .
Now take away the /br / and put in /st/. What is the new word?’
• asks students to provide new examples by manipulating graphemes, eg ‘Make as many
words as you can by changing the beginning of the word chat.’
• provides multiple and varied opportunities for students to manipulate phonemes to
make new words, eg using interactive technology (Rose 2006), magnetic letters on
a whiteboard, post-its, etc.
IMPLEMENTATION