Appoint your preteen or teen as the host and have them interview each family member about the last book they read. The host may use the following discussion prompts or come up with their own:. Describe your favorite character. Would you want to be friends with them? What advice might you give them? What is the book's message or theme? How does that relate to your life? Did any part of the book surprise you? Did you learn anything new? Teachers, as always, feel free to share these suggestions with your students and families.
Home Resources Blog Posts. Family Game Night foundational and intermediate readers Did you know that some familiar board games are also super literacy skill boosters? However, there are certain reading games for kindergarten kids that can teach your kids the very same concepts in a way that is entertaining for them and improves their interest in getting to know a language better. Focusing on reading in young children from an early age is quite important since it has its advantages over the time.
The rules of grammar can be absorbed easily by exposing the child as early as possible to grammatically correct sentences. The importance of reading safety signs or road rules in the world can be pretty much a lifesaver for your kids in the long run.
There are numerous fun-filled and exciting reading games for preschoolers that you can opt for and help your child start developing the fascination for reading books. Start off your child on discovering the magic of reading, by introducing him to the happiness of solving a riddle and getting a prize. Rather than turn reading into a job, let your kid start finding out how reading is so integral to any part of their lives. Hide his toys or even new ones along with a few chocolates or gifts in different parts of the house.
About those locations, write down simple clues on a piece of paper. Make your child read it out loud, answer it and then find the hidden object. You can purchase a special board of this variation, too. Or else, you can use a pen and write simple words that your child can read on all the squares of the board. Your child can count the squares and say the words aloud as he passes them.
By referencing different areas of the board, your child can learn to scan the words by visual identification. This game requires larger participation from your end, but it directly helps the child comprehend complex questions easily.
Either use a dictionary directly or write various words on flashcards and put them all in a bucket. Let your child pick out a word and tell you the number of letters in it.
As a parent, you would have some wonderful memories of playing Scrabble with your family and friends. Use the core concept of the game to come up with a variation for your little one. Instead of the usual seven letters, give your child a wider variety of letters to use. Make sure vowels are provided aplenty.
Ask your child to come up with as many words as he can using those letters. You can provide a guiding list of sorts, by starting him off with three letter words, and then ramp it up to words with more letters.
Let him write down each word that he makes on the piece of paper. The core formation of speech revolves around the connection of letters with typical sounds of speech. Use this game to match the right ones together. Golf tees stuck in a Styrofoam base create the perfect platform to interchange different letters written on ping-pong balls. This game lends itself to giggling and throwing the ping-pong balls, and all shenanigans can count as literacy training.
Draw a grid on a piece of paper, and place a number in each box. Provide your students with a sheet of number stickers, and let them move the numbers into the box with the matching number.
After all of the numbers are used up, encourage them to write each number themselves in the corresponding box. If you or your kiddos have the time to collect 52 rocks, this uppercase and lowercase literacy activity could begin in the great outdoors. Wash the rocks, and write an uppercase letter on one side, with the corresponding lowercase letter on the opposite side.
Then show words or pictures on index cards, and challenge kids to recreate the word. Another great activity from Hands on as We Grow , this will give your little one triple the fun while practicing name writing. Start by writing their name in large letters with a highlighter on a piece of paper. First, ask them to trace the highlighted letters with a pencil. Then, have them trace the letters with glue, followed by yarn do steps 2 and 3 one letter at a time to avoid a sticky mess!
This triple reinforcement will help the child learn their name letters and leave them with a fun craft at the end. Collect some free paint sticks from a home improvement store, and make these phonological awareness tools from Pre-K Pages. Directions and pictures of the paint sticks come with free printouts to make your job just a little easier. This twist on the traditional bingo game comes from Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls.
Simply make bingo cards with 16 letters on each card, and cut little squares of paper to write the corresponding letters on. Put these squares in a pile for the caller to pull from. For bingo markers, you can use legos, cheerios or anything else you have around.
Another familiar game, this version of Go Fish from How Wee Learn will have your kiddos learning letters without even knowing it. Cut paper into card-sized squares, and write a letter on each one, making two of each letter. Split the cards between the players, and follow the standard rules of the game to make as many matching letter pairs as you can.
Letters drawn out with whipped cream on tinfoil begin this activity. Provide the students with sprinkles and other cookie-decorating accessories, and let them decorate their letter. Kids Creative Chaos promotes this playtime for its engagement with all five senses while the children work on their letter. Old scrabble games are the perfect literacy tool to play with.
The Kids Creative Chaos blog recommends arranging the letters to form rhyming words with children who are interested and allowing everyone to play with the tiles as they like. Even if the kids wind up building houses out of the scrabble letters, they are still seeing the letters and establishing familiarity. The Many Little Joys shares this fun preschool learning activity that only requires Popsicle sticks, a marker and a small cup or bucket.
Have your child pull out one stick at a time, reading the letter or making the sound of each one. Literacy games in the classroom don't have to be unmanageable. The more often they are included as part of the curriculum the better children get at organising themselves. I have suggested that the children themselves are involved in making the games. This gives them a sense of ownership. All these activities can be adapted to words and stories you want re-enforcing in your classroom.
The fish for words literacy activity is a useful game to play when children are learning to read. It can be used to help them remember the 'tricky words' such as 'was' or ' they': words that cannot be phonetically sounded out.
The children then 'fish' for a word with their rod and if they are successful in reading it, they can keep it.
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