Pink Reading Scheme: Object Boxes

Aside from the Alpha Phonics Boxes, I also made my son Montessori’s Pink Scheme as part of our materials for language lesson.  Since my son has a thorough knowledge of the alphabets and knows each sound by heart, I decided to put this “knowledge” to a test.  He’s into letters for the past months and pretending to read words.  So it is just timely that I should introduce him to the basic step of learning how to read... the cvc words (consonant-vowel-consonant).

My Pink series are composed of the following:

1. Object Box (as shown in this post) and the reinforcement exercises.
2. Picture Box
3. Word Lists
4. Sight Words
5. Phrase Strips
6. Sentence Strips

This is how we use my pink series:

1. I would lay out all the objects on the table and would name each object.  At first I would make Mavi repeat after me, but since he knew the objects already I would make him name an object as I take each one from the box.
2. I would take out a word card from the box and read it aloud.  I would emphasize the beginning and ending sounds of each letter on the CVC word.  Then I would ask my son to make the first sound of the word, followed by the vowel and the end sound.
3. When done I would give him the card and he would match it to the object on the table.  Then again, I would make him read the word before I proceed to the next word on the box.
4. To make sure that these words and objects are indeed instilled in his memory, aside from the Montessorish way of teaching it, I also tend to take it out and just use each object to tell a story.  I just make sure that whenever I call out an object in the story I would also present the word card during the story telling.

SET 1:  pot, tag, bug, man, pin, red

SET 2:  cup, ram, car, pig, dog, hen

 SET 3:  log, yak, box, pen, bus, six

SET 4:  cow, hay, nut, lid, web, can

SET 5:  hog, bin, cat, pan, bun, key

SET 6:  bow, fan, peg, cap, sun, zip

SET 7:  van, net, wax, mop, fin, bud 

SET 8:  hat, gum, fox, ten, jug, cab

This is how the re-enforcement page looks like.  Each set of the pink scheme has one of this.  The aim here is for the little kiddo to match the word on the left side to the picture on the right side by drawing a line.

For more activities on learning how to read you can check out my summary in this post, How My Oldest Child Learned How to Read.