Syllable Finder - Excello-Recherche-Education/Kalulu GitHub Wiki

A Syllable Finder Game is an educational activity designed to strengthen the connection between spoken language and its written form.

In this game, players hear a syllable (a basic unit of sound that typically includes a vowel sound, alone or combined with consonants) and must identify and select its correct written representation from a set of options.

The core learning objective is to:

• Train children’s phonological awareness (recognizing and distinguishing sounds),
• Support the grapheme-phoneme correspondence (linking sounds to letters),
• Build a solid foundation for decoding skills, which are essential for reading fluency.

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How It Works

• The player listens to a syllable pronounced aloud.
• Multiple written syllable options appear on the screen.
• The player must quickly and accurately click on the correct syllable that matches the sound they heard.

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Educational Goals

• Strengthen auditory discrimination: Distinguishing between similar syllable sounds.
• Reinforce letter-sound knowledge: Connecting oral language to text.
• Develop fast and accurate decoding: A key skill for becoming a fluent reader.

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In the Kalulu Game

• Syllables vary in difficulty (based on grapheme complexity and familiarity).
• Distractors are carefully chosen to avoid confusion with the target sound.
• Feedback mechanisms (e.g., repeating instructions, highlighting the correct answer) are built into the gameplay to support learning through mistakes.

Syllable identification mini-games:

• 🪼Jellyfish
• 🦀Crabs