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1. Picture Match is designed to help new readers practice beginning letter sounds, short vowel sounds, and long vowel sounds. This interactive is great for teaching and helping students practice with the supportive help through a game. 2. This interactive is being played by the students learning how to read. This would hit mainly grades kindergarten through 2nd grade and touch in the content area of letter and vowel sounds. The skills needed are the beginning steps to learning how to read. Students will need to be able to recognize letter and pictures in order to guess what box the picture will fall into based on the sound they think it makes. 3. What the student will be doing in this interactive is receiving about 15 pictures and 5 boxes all with a different letter on it. Once the first picture pops up the student must determine what that is a picture of and from that determination pick out of the 5 letter choices what beginning letter sounds or vowel sounds it matches too. If the student is correct the picture falls into the box and saved. If the student choosing incorrectly then the box lids will close on the wrongly chosen letter allowing the student to pick a different box. 4.This is significant because it helps the student practice their beginning letter and vowel sounds through a supportive interactive that does not require the teacher to attend to all the students. It is productive for the students while allowing the teacher time to walk around and clear up any questions they may have. This addresses universal design in a way that it provides multiple ways to engage students' interest and motivation. By giving the students the option of using this interactive the teacher is providing the students with choices that will benefit their learning preference. 5.In my future classroom, I would incorporate this tool as being a helpful support to my students after learning the basics of sounding out beginning letters and both short and long vowel sounds. To make this interactive more hands on and active, I could bring in boxes with the alphabet and/or vowel sounds along with different picture that would fit into the boxes. Have each student pick pictures and figure out which box they belong in depending on their beginning letter sounds and/or vowel sounds. 6. Possible problems that students may encounter through this interactive would possibly be not being at the level to where students are able to recognize the correct beginning letter and/or vowel sounds for the pictures. Also another problem is the students may not be able to determine what the picture is of and have a hard time picking the box it will fall into. 7.
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