It’s always fun to have a literacy expert look at your literacy
resources and give you concrete suggestions for making them even better. This
past week I had the pleasure of ‘hanging with’ Dr. Caroline Musselwhite …
literacy expert and an all-round gem to the field of AAC and literacy.
In an earlier version of
the ASbyS Mystery Animals, I had filled in some of the letters in the ‘mystery
animal words’. Caroline suggested that I omit the letters completely allowing
teachers greater flexibility in using the pen tools of their interactive
whiteboard to add letters in keeping with the needs of the class or the needs
of an individual student in the class. For example, if her students are great
at identifying the first letter/sound in a spoken word but are challenged by the
task of identifying final sounds in a word, all the letters might be added
except the final letter/sound.
I also showed Caroline the B-I-N-G-O and Friends Song
that I had created extending the ‘bingo verse’ to other farm animals with names
such as W-I-N-N-Y, B-E-S-S-Y, K-I-T-T-Y and she suggested that I could extend
that strategy to other sets of words as well. e.g., weather terms (S-U-N-N-Y, C-L-OU-D-Y, R-A-I-N-Y,
S-N-O-W-Y, and F-O-G-G-Y, W-I-N-D-Y.
Many thanks to the colleague who gave Caroline this original great idea. The
final Animated Step-by-Step product is … B-I-N-G-O Weather!
Thank you Dr. Musselwhite, for all your creative ideas and for
everything that you do for our field!
…’til the
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©2017 Carol
Goossens’, Ph.D.
Augmentative
Communication Consultant
Speech-Language
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