<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>In my exercices I simply do not propose any words with accents. Or they are at the end of the words and do not matter for the orders. We aim children from 2 to 10, so we need to keep it simple :)<br><br></div>An other remark maybe. You can not call this activity letter classification as letter classification would mean to separate them into classes. For example voyelle and consonne. Alphabetical order would be ok for all latin languages I guess.<br><br></div>Again, great activity choice, I am looking forward to try it live!<br><br></div>Regards,<br><br></div>Emmanuel<br><div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-05-23 12:08 GMT+02:00 Stefan Toncu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stefan.toncu29@gmail.com" target="_blank">stefan.toncu29@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><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 style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;color:black" lang="EN-US">In my proposal, I added a
video "draft" of a possible approach on the activity: </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;color:black" lang="EN-US"><a href="https://youtu.be/XfkNd7aohiY" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/XfkNd7aohiY</a></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;color:black" lang="EN-US">Regarding this subject, this
is what Emmanuel replied to me: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font color="#000000" face="Segoe UI, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.3333px"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font color="#000000" face="Segoe UI, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.3333px">>>>></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Hi Stefan,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">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 style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">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 style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">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 style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">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 style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">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 style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">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 style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">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 style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">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 style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">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 style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">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 style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Emmanuel</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.6667px"><<<<<</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;color:black" lang="EN-US">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 style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;color:black" lang="EN-US">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 style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;color:black" lang="EN-US">How do you think it's best for
children to learn the letter classification? Please
share your ideas!</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"></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><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Stefan</span></p></font></span></div>
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