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CLASS Description

Quality of Feedback

Prompting Thought Processes– The teacher asks the children to explain how they solved the word and sound it out. “What words did you spell?” Can you read it?”” “What do you have?” “Did you do this? What does it say together?”

Scaffolding– The teacher guides children through sounding out each letter to decode the word.

Providing Information– The teacher gives specific feedback to children as they sound out the letters, sometimes giving them the letter sounds.

Concept Development

Integration– This activity incorporates letter recognition, phonics, and blending sounds to solve words.

Language Modeling

Self- and Parallel Talk– The teacher maps children’s actions, “You spelled that word, and you read it.”

Age: 5K

Play Type: Playful Instruction

Content: Fine Motor, Language Arts

Context: Small Group

District: Glover

Teacher: Ms.D

Video Descripton

In the example of Playful Instruction, 5K teacher, Ms. D, scaffolds and models the literacy activity where children create words using alphabet letter cubes. The teacher asks the two children to read the words on the cards, think about the sounds of the alphabet letters, and then build the words with alphabet letters.