[GCompris-devel] GSoC - Letter Classification

[Emmanuel Charruau]

Hi,

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 :)

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.

Again, great activity choice, I am looking forward to try it live!

Regards,

Emmanuel


2016-05-23 12:08 GMT+02:00 Stefan Toncu <stefan.toncu29 at gmail.com>:

> Hi everyone!
>
> 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”.
>
> In my proposal, I added a video "draft" of a possible approach on the
> activity: https://youtu.be/XfkNd7aohiY
>
>
>
> Regarding this subject, this is what Emmanuel replied to me:
>
>
> >>>>
>
> Hi Stefan,
>
> The video application is really good. You can implement it like this. I do
> about the same when we start working on this competence.
>
>
>
> 1- Then I make it more complicated just showing for example
>
> F ......  H and my pupils have to be able to right G on the middle. Why is
> that more difficult you will ask me?
>
> 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?
>
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 4- and then last level sorting words starting with similar letters:
> literature - literate - literal
>
> At least I did all that with my 7 years old class this year, and this is
> not that easy for them :(
>
> Your activity will be a great help next year :)
>
> 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 :)
>
> Emmanuel
>
> <<<<<
>
>
>
>
>
> 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).
>
> How should I approach this inconvenient? Should I develop the activity for
> English letters only?
>
>
>
> How do you think it's best for children to learn the letter
> classification? Please share your ideas!
>
>
>
>
> Thank you
>
> Stefan
>
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