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[Hugh Birdsall]

Hi Cesar,

You may already know this, but I won’t assume. The Game  of Transformations, for developing phonemic awareness,  has 4 rules: To transform one word into another one, one step at a time, where each change also creates a word,  you can

1 add a sound/letter

2 substitute one sound/letter for another

3 reverse the whole word

4 insert a sound/letter into the word

So with the device you have shown, one student might present a starting word and then, having checked the feasibility of the transformation, challenge the other student to transform it into the target word.

For example:

in English

man.             stamps 

man map lap lamp tamp stamp stamps

and in Spanish

los                   somos 

Los nos son   sono     solo solos  somos

(Pardon my imperfect Spanish if I have made mistakes here.)

This is one pathway. There could be others.

The game offers students opportunities to gain  flexibility and autonomy in the “algebra” of phonemic awareness and vocabulary development.

I hope this was of some use.

Best regards,

Hugh Birdsall

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Has anyone ever seen one of these?

CESAR FARFAN <zeros...@gmail.com>: Nov 26 07:34PM -0800 Hello everyone,   My name is Cesar from Peru, and I’ve been teaching Spanish with SW online for some time. I was recently given these tools, which apparently help learners form words (please see the pictures below). The person who gave them to me wasn’t sure how they’re supposed to be used, but he did mention that they were designed by Gattegno.   My question is: does anyone know how these are meant to be used? I’m guessing they might have been created to help Spanish and English native speakers learn to read.   I’d really appreciate any insights or experiences you can share. Thank you!

Luigi Magnano <luigi....@gmail.com>: Nov 27 10:15AM +0100 Hi I remember seeing these many years ago when we introduced "Leo Color" in our bilingual schools. Thiis was an interesting game for students useful in the transformation of words.   Mucha suerte   Louis     Il giorno gio 27 nov 2025 alle ore 04:34 CESAR FARFAN <zeros...@gmail.com> ha scritto:

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[Roslyn Young]

Hi Cesar,

When I was in Burkina Faso in 2009, I was working with a teacher trainer on teaching teachers to teach reading in the Dioula language, the language spoken in Bobodioulasso (the city of the Dioula speakers). We made one of these for Dioula. They have the advantage of being very cheap to make and allowing children to create words in a random fashion, without needing more sophisticated material like a computer. The children could spin the three wheels and read whatever turned up in the window. We only had a single sided version, but it worked very well. Dioula seems very complicated until you do something like this with it, and that simplifies everything.

Roslyn