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Block Challenge 9, The Final Challenge
What Changed: 1 to 3-Sound Patterns

Can your child play 'What's New? First or Last?'

Lists 1 thru 6?

Then let's play:

What Changed? One to Three Sounds

1. Ask your child to show you, with blocks, a one-to-three sound word. (Nonsense words are fine!) For example:

You say ‘shoe’ -- and the child lines up two different colored blocks
(sh-oe = 2 sounds, shown by 2 blocks)

2. Then add or take away a sound; or change one of the sounds.
For example:

You could say “If this [block arrangement ] is ‘shoe,’ show me ‘show.’”
(You changed the second sound: sh-oe --> sh-ow.)

Or instead, you could say “If this is ‘shoe,’ show me ‘loo’”
(You changed the first sound: sh-oe --> l-oo.)

Or you could say, “If this is ‘shoe,’ show me ‘shoop.’
(You added a sound at the end: sh-oe --> sh-oo-p.)

Or you could say, “If this is ‘shoe,’ show me ‘oo.’
(You took away the first sound: shoe --> oo.)

3. The child changes the block pattern -- adds, takes away, or changes one of the blocks-- to show which sound has been added, removed, or changed.


prefrain

EXAMPLE:

You Say

Child Places Blocks

So.

s-o               2 blocks

If that says 'so'
show me 'no.'

n-o              changes first block

If that says 'no'
show me 'noze'

n-o-ze          adds a third block

If that says 'nose'
show me 'nize'

If that says 'nize'
show me 'nime'

If that says 'nime'
show me 'lime'

If that says 'lime'
show me 'shime'

n-i-se     changes middle block


n-i-me       changes third block


l-i-me          changes first block


sh-i-me      changes first block


prefrain

HINT: S-t-r-e-t-ch the ‘stretchy’ sounds at first to help your child learn the game: “Sh-h-h-h-o-o-o-o --> Sh-h-h-h-o-o-o-o-p.”