<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi everyone!</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I need some
feedback from you regarding one of the activities I have to develop this summer
during the Google Summer of Code program: “LetterClassification”. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;color:black">In my proposal, I added a
video "draft" of a possible approach on the activity: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://youtu.be/XfkNd7aohiY" target="_blank" class="hoverZoomLink">https://youtu.be/XfkNd7aohiY</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;color:black">Regarding this subject, this
is what Emmanuel replied to me: </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Hi Stefan,</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The video application is
really good. You can implement it like this. I do about the same when we start
working on this competence.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">1- Then I make it more complicated just showing for
example</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">F ......  H and my pupils have to be able to
right G on the middle. Why is that more difficult you will ask me?</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Because they do not have the
help of the rest of the alphabet to remember what we call "la comptine
alphabétique" (the alphabetical song) and they have to do it just using
their memory?</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">2- But then it is really the beginning. The real final
goal for a 7 years old is to be able to search a word in the dictionary using
the alphabetic order, and when he is doing so and opening the pages he will
have to know that a letter is after another one, even with gap between
letters. <br>
<br>
To train them you could ask to sort letters that are not following each other,
you can give "g a t" and pupils have to sort -> a g t.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">3- All this has the goal to sort real words. I would
add a level (or another related activity) to sort real words. With different
first letter to begin with: tree, house, pear.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">4- and then last level sorting words starting with
similar letters: literature - literate - literal</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">At least I did all that with my 7 years old class this
year, and this is not that easy for them :(</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Your activity will be a great help next year :)</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Tell me what you think, this is maybe too much in a
single activity? Maybe to be splitted in a letter activity and a word activity?
Bruno, Johnny, Sagar, any suggestions are welcome too :)</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Emmanuel</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;color:black">There would be another matter
to address: GCompris is used in many countries that use different alphabets (for example, in French, there are some accents grave, acute etc).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;color:black">How should I approach this inconvenient? Should I develop the activity for English
letters only? </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;color:black">How do you think it's best for
children to learn the letter classification? Please
share your ideas!</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Thank you</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Stefan</span></p></div>