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A great skill to teach and have readers practice is finding relationships between words. See the matrix to the left.
Readers must be able to play with words. They will notice that 2 of the words begin with the same letter. They will notice that 2 of the words are foods. They have to figure out a word that could fit into the empty box.
The mystery word should be a word that is not a food and also starts with the letter p.
Examples of possible answers -present, puppy, or plane
Matrices could be words like above for those students who are already reading. They could also be pictures of the words and possible answers could be provided and the student could pick from one of the pictures provided.
Matrices could be words like above for those students who are already reading. They could also be pictures of the words and possible answers could be provided and the student could pick from one of the pictures provided.
1722_001.pdfBlank Matrix - if you want to print at practice this skill at home.
Print practice matrices down below. If your child isn't reading, you could use pictures instead.
1725_001.pdfsample answer - carrot
1723_001.pdfsample answer - apple
1724_001.pdfsample answer - sandwich
1726_001.pdfsample answer - french fries
1727_001.pdfsample answer - goose
Completing matrices - ability to process at the same time 2 things (phonological info and semantic info) so the beginning sound and the meaning of the word
This plays an important role for skilled readers
It bridges "word reading" and comprehension
Research says "Graphophonoligical cognitive flexibility is the ability to simultaneously attend to and flexibly switch between the letters and sounds in words and the meaning of words. Readers switch their attention flexibly between the complex word-decoding and meaning construction processes needed to understand the text. These interventions (using matrices) raise reading comprehension".
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