The artist often repurposes her poetic phrases, or “Truisms,” building their power through repetition.
On screens that would typically promote sales, company names, or stock market updates, Holzer broadcasts punchy phrases such as “DON’T TALK DOWN TO ME” or “WITNESS,” along with longer, looping messages. If Holzer’s benches transform public park fixtures into artistic media, her LED banners co-opt a structure associated with commerce and advertising. Holzer renders her phrases in all-caps and serif lettering, turning them into monumental proclamations: “PROTECT ME FROM / WHAT I WANT,” “IT IS IN YOUR SELF-INTEREST / TO FIND A WAY TO BE VERY TENDER,” “RAISE BOYS AND GIRLS THE SAME WAY.” They become creative mandates in shared spaces and benevolent counterpoints to state directives. She engraves poetic statements about power, feminism, and individual agency into benches made from streaked Carrara marble, spotted granite, and royal blue-tinged sodalite. For example, sat/hat, mop/map, mad/made, cot/coat.Jenny Holzer turns common public objects into subversive artworks bearing powerful words. Use minimal contrasts to ensure students fully analyze the words and notice their unique differences. As you build new words, be sure to include the new target sound-spelling as well as words with review sound-spellings. Next, MODEL! Place letter cards in a pocket cart to form the first word you are building. The routine for word building is simple! First, introduce the task by naming it and explaining the purpose. Students have to think about how the two words are different and which sound must be changed in order to form the new one.īoth of these word-building activities can be done with the same set of words, so incorporating both into your week gives your students good practice and saves you planning time! Word Building Routines This requires a lot more thinking than blending-focused work.
Then they would be asked to change the letter c to s and read the new word formed. Word Building: Blending Focus In this type of word building students are asked to make a word, such as cat.There are two types of word building activities, each with their own instructional purpose. I’m afraid I wasn’t giving them enough practice to ensure mastery. I realized that in my own teaching (and I confess!) I was guilty of exposing my students to a phonics skill, taking them through my weekly word study routine, and then moving onto the next skill the following week. One of my main takeaways from Blevins’ book, A Fresh Look at Phonics, is the importance of providing students with lots of opportunities for review and repetition in order to ensure they actually master the skills that we teach! I’ve learned so much about phonics instruction and come to realize that there are aspects of the way I taught phonics that I would now change and improve. This past year I have spent a lot of time reading the work of Wiley Blevins. One thing I love about teaching is that there is always the opportunity to learn, grow and become better.
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Students will develop word awareness skills as they explore and play with letter sounds to build words. Word building is a critical phonics activity.
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