Hula Hoop Words

In this activity students practice segmenting sounds in words and then blending them back together.

Materials needed: Hula Hoop and Picture cards (optional).

Say a word or show the students a picture card. Ask a student to stand inside the hula hoop. As each sound in the picture card/word is sounded out, raise the hula hoop up. After the last sound is stated, blend all the sounds together to make the word as the hula hoop is lowered back to the ground.


By Deb Mortensen and Nancy Thompson, Storm Lake Kindergarten Teachers, Quint County Reading Council
Iowa Reading Association Newsletter, Fall 2004