Felt FONEMZ® is an extremely effective and fun tool for improving phonemic awareness, speech sound production and literacy skills for students 9 months to 90+ years old.
Visual, Tactile, Kinesthetic = Multimodal Learning
Felt FONEMZ®
• Improve focus using multimodal interactive activities
• Teach turn taking
• Allow students to feel in control of their learning
• Used with individuals or a whole class for teaching sound symbol association.
• Used in isolation, syllables and words
• Use with puppets is thrilling for young students
• Can be crumpled and retain original shape
The following video demonstrates introducing FONEMZ to preschool children with severe speech articulation difficulties and no phonemic awareness.
Teaching turn taking:
Place the target FELT FONEMZ on the shirt of the teacher. The teacher makes the sound. Then, when it is next adhered to the child's shirt, the same behavior/sound is expected. This becomes clear very quickly.
Puppets eat FONEMZ:
Another useful attribute of felt is that it retains its original shape even if it is crumpled. It can, therefore, be placed within ones hand, in a container or in a puppets mouth and be smoothed out to its original form.
Place the target FELT FONEMZ on the shirt of the teacher. The teacher makes the sound. Then, when it is next adhered to the child's shirt, the same behavior/sound is expected. This becomes clear very quickly.
Puppets eat FONEMZ:
Another useful attribute of felt is that it retains its original shape even if it is crumpled. It can, therefore, be placed within ones hand, in a container or in a puppets mouth and be smoothed out to its original form.
The following video illustrates how FONEMZ has been introduced to preschoolers who are deaf, have apraxia, and Down Syndrome. They are excited!
These little girls had never repeated verbally until using FONEMZ!
More ideas for FELT FONEMZ, FUN FONEMZ and Magnet FONEMZ activities are in the Teacher's Guide.
Many informative videos concerning FONEMZ can be pulled up simply by typing “FONEMZ” on YouTube.