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Vowel and Consonant Towers


A, B, C, D… Yes, you know your alphabet!
But can you separate vowels and consonants? Of course you can!

Braille Activity

  • Comparing
  • Literacy
  • Spelling

Level: 1

Number of players: 1

Duration: 10 min

Skills:

  • Name, read, write letters

  • Collect / organise the information

  • Compare, sort, match

  • Build a construction

The children read the letters and decide which tower the letter belongs to.

Goals

To classify letters by category: vowel or consonant. 

The adult prepares

  • 1 baseplate

  • 6 vowel and 6 consonant in a bowl

The children play

1

Ask the student to pick a brick, read the letter and identify if it is a vowel or a consonant.

2

Tell them to build 2 towers: one made of consonants, the other of vowels.

So, can you place the brick on the plate?
What letter have you got?
‘E’.
And you, what’s your letter?
‘E’.
Ah, it’s the same one.
So is it a vowel or a consonant?
A vowel.
A vowel, very good.
So now, you take another brick.
If it’s a vowel, you have to put it
on the brick already laid.
So, what have you got?
‘A’.
Is that a vowel or a consonant?
-A vowel.
So what do you do?
I put it on there.
-All right!
And we keep going until there’s nothing left in the bag.
It’s a consonant.
It’s a consonant.
‘J’ is a consonant.
A ‘G’ and an ‘I’, yes.
So what have you got?
‘L’ ! It’s a consonant.
‘F’.
So go ahead, give it to her.
It’s a consonant.
Well done. Very good!

Facilitation tips

  • Choose different numbers of vowels and consonants.

  • Use a timer.

  • Make a 2-player challenge: collaborate with peers to build the tallest tower using all of the
    bricks / just consonants / just vowels.