Ideas for Helping Your Child at Home |
| Activities for Learning Sight Words: Choose the Word Lay down four word cards. Say a word and have your child choose the correct word. Feed the Monster Make a monster out of a cereal box with a hole cut out for mouth. Make paper cookies and write a word on each. Child feeds the monster if he can read the word. Highlighting Have your child find the words in a newspaper and highlight or circle them. Flash Cards Make flash cards of your sight words. Hold them up and practice reading. Cut the letters apart and have your child put them back together and say the word. Make two of each word and play Go Fish. |
| Activites for Sounding Out Words: If You Think You Know This Word (Tne: If You're Happy and You Know It) If you think you know this word, shout it out. If you think you know this word, shout it out. If you think you know this word, then tell me what you heard. If you think you know this word, shout it out. /c/ /a/ /t/ (Child says the word after you sound it out. Repeat sounding out other words.) Give Me A _______! Do this cheer to sound out words. Give me a /c/! Give me an /a/! Give me a /t/! What does that spell? |
| Rhyming Activities: Listen For Rhyme Say three words such as hop, mop, pop. If the words rhyme the child claps. If three words are given that do not rhyme, they cross their arms. Give a Word that Rhymes Say a word such as sky or hill or wing. Child says a word that rhymes with the word you say. Change the Rhyme Child recites a nursery rhyme. Let them change the rhyme. (Humpty Dumpty sat on a chair. Humpty Dumpty had a great scare.) |
| Activites for Learning Letters and Sounds: I Spy Tell your child, "I spy something that begins with the /b/ sound." Child guesses object. (When letters are in / /, you say the sound, not the name.) Choose The Word That is Different Say four words. Three with the same beginning sound, and one with a different beginning sound.Child chooses the one which has a different beginning sound. What's the Sound (Tune:Old McDonald) What's the sound that starts these words? Turtle, time, and teeth. /t/ is the sound that starts these words, Turtle, time, and teeth. With a /t/ /t/ here, and a /t/ /t/ there, Here a /t/, there a /t/ everywhere a /t/ /t/. /t/ is the sound that starts these words, Can you tell me more? (Have child give other words that begin with t, then sing the song with other letters.) |