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Ideas for the Sound/Word  Muncher

I have gathered YOUR ideas. Thanks for being generous and sharing them with others.

From Barb:

Whole Group Ideas

...Sing Muncher Song, and decide as a class on things that would work for his snack. (ie..."Let's look around the room and see if we can find some /p/ things for him to munch.")

...Give all children 2 things, and they have to choose which one meets the criteria you are asking for. (Ex. give them 2 pictures, one that starts with /m/ and one that starts with /t/. Tell them the muncher wants them to pick the one that starts with /t/.)

...Give each child one thing and they have to find a partner with the same thing and feed the muncher together. (Ex. Give each child a card with a picture, but be sure there are rhyming pairs like moose/goose, cat/hat, fan/man distributed around the room. They have to find the picture that rhymes with theirs and bring the rhymes up together to feed him.)

Small Group
...Give a group of children a tub with small items and have them sort through according to criteria. (Ex. focus letter, etc.)

..Let children work in pairs and one challenges the other  (ie, the stronger student is actually tutoring the other one by helping him practice a weak skill.)

.,.Have them find, cut and paste magazine pictures at a center to make snacks for the muncher.

...Task cards for center:
things that begin with /-/
things that end with /-/
things that begin like Larry's name
other names that have the same # of letters as Larry
things that are opposites
things that rhyme with ___
things that have (3) syllables
color words
number words
letters you know
words you know
words with a chunk ("ing" or "er")
words that describe a __ (bear or whatever the theme

From Deb Green

Use the Sound Muncher to review sounds by having your leader hold up a letter flashcard. the children say the letter, the sound it makes, and say a word beginning with the sound.  The child who volunteers a word gets to "feed" the Sound Muncher.

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From Pamela Aigner/Maryland

I made a sound muncher several years ago, and my children really have enjoyed it.  (It needs to be replaced, the poor thing is nearly bald these days!)  I thought I would share a couple of ways that I have used it:

• for concept attainment Example: the muncher eats candy but not cake, chips but not peanuts, etc.  Children must discover the rule (which in this case is words with short vowel sounds)
• for beginning, middle, and ending sounds (sometimes I use real objects that the muncher can eat)
• for word identification (if child can say the word, he can feed it to the muncher)
• for sentences/fragments (muncher can only eat complete sentences, written on little sentence strips)
• for fact/opinion
• for questions/statements

I know there are more, but these are some that I could remember right away.  It is a very versatile teraching tool, and could also be used for math (the muncher only eats sums of 8, etc.)

Ideas from: OHWeideman

Kindergarten or Beginning of First Grade ideas

put in a letter...cards with real letters and some with just symbols or pictures
put in a word...cards with simple words and some with only letters or symbols
put in a sentence...cars with simple sentences and some with only letters, words
word recognition...say a word and they find it from a set of three cards
sentence recognition...read it and they find if from a set of two or three cards

Task Cards from Mary Twentyman

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