[IAEP] sounds in Speak

[Nicco Eneidi]

Sameer,
This is very interesting, I think an educational website that I have seen do
this properly is the Alphabet activity on www.starfall.com

I've used this site quite a bit with my kindergarten and first grade
students in the past and have even seen it in use with Adult Ed students at
an adult literacy program locally.

I believe Starfall uses a combination of calling the letter by name but also
placing an emphasis on the sound that the letter makes in different words.

-Nicco

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> This afternoon, I had an interesting conversation with a Montessori
> teacher, about Speak. She asked me why Speak says "a" when "a" is pressed
> and not the *sound* of the letter "a". Montessori teachers teach the shape
> and sound of letters first, and then the name of the alphabet. I did not
> have an answer for her, but I wondered if it would be possible to have an
> option in Speak to do so.
>
> I'd imagine that the sound of the letter would vary depending on language,
> right?
>
> cheers,
> Sameer
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> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor of Information Systems
> San Francisco State University
> San Francisco CA 94132 USA
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