Reversals & Visual Discrimination

 

            Today's Snack: Eat a banana in reverse: hold it upside down and peel the peel upward, if you can without laughing. Then go outside and try drinking a cup of water in reverse -- from the opposite edge of the cup. It's not as easy as you might think!

 

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Supplies:

Mirror | paper | pencil

 

 

Writing letters backwards is fairly common. But it's a habit nobody needs! First, make funny faces in the mirror - you know you want to! Then, try these exercises to help you get some "reps" on writing a few key letters correctly:

 

 

1.      Look in a mirror; pronounce the phonogram /b/.

 

When you pronounce a phonogram, which is the written symbol for a sound in the English language, you pronounce just that sound. Don't be making a long syllable out of it, as in "buhhhhhhh." Just /b/.

 

See how your lips form a straight horizontal line when you say a /b/ sound? That's your clue to write the line first when you write the letter "b," and THEN write the circle. Write a bunch of b's while saying the /b/ sound aloud.

 

 

 

2.  Look in the mirror again; pronounce a /d/.

 

            Again, don't say /duhhhhhh/ -- that's humorous, in a way - but crisply, just pronounce that /d/ sound.

 

See how your lips form an oval, not a line? See how you CAN'T say a /d/ with your lips forming a line? That's a reminder that with a /d/ you should write the oval first, and THEN add the line. Write some d's, saying it aloud.

 

 

 

3.      Do the same thing with p's and q's.

 

 

 

 

rrrr

 

 

-j--

 

 

, , , /

 

 

/ . / /

 

 

h e e e

 

 

2 2 2 0

 

 

at   an   in   na

 

 

on   in  an  no

 

 

jmpu   jump   mujp   mjpu

 

 

receive   receive   receive   recieve

 

 

bed   deb   bed   bed