-------------------------Phonological Activities------------------------------
Many of the following activities can be done while traveling in the car or
waiting for an appointment. They should be informal, enjoyable
activities. Phonological awareness activities should always focus on
speaking sounds and listening for sounds.
Read many books with rhyme to your child (especially nursery rhymes).
Your child can listen as you say lists of words that rhyme. Then provide
your child with two words and ask if they rhyme.
Play oddity games- say three words and ask which two rhyme.
You can also use rhyming pictures or cards. Your child is shown two
cards. If the picture words rhyme, he/she may keep the cards.
You can use the rhyming cards to play Memory. You spread the cards
out and your child turns over two cards. The cards are kept if they rhyme
and the player gets a second turn. The player with the most cards at the
end is the winner.
Play "I Spy" with your child. Play it using rhyming clues. "I spy
something
that rhymes with blue." Or try initial sounds of a word. "I spy something
that starts with p."
------------------------------Producing Rhyme----------------------------------
After reading many rhyme, your child will soon be able to provide some
of the rhyming words using the meaning of the sentence.
For example, you read:
The little green frog
Is sitting on a _______.
Emphasize frog, pause and allow your child to provide the word log.)
You say 3 or 4 words that rhyme and ask your child for another rhyming
word.
Tell your child silly sentences and ask them to finish the rhymes:
My yellow cat has a new________.
The funny man has a __________.
-----------------------------Sentence Segmentation-------------------------
Model counting words in a sentence. Begin with short sentences that
contain
one
syllable words and move on to longer sentences and words. Put your
fist up
and lift
fingers to count words. Ask your child to use their fingers to help you
count after you
model this skill.
Give your child pennies, colored chips, or some otehr token to use.
Model
having the
tokens lined up on a table and you move each token up as you say each
word in
a
sentence. Your child can practice this after you model this skill.
--------------------------------Fun With Sounds----------------------------------------
Sing 'The Alphabet Song' with your child.
Talk about words that ryme, like cat and hat, or mouse and house. For
example, you could say 'did you hear all those words that rhyme?' or
'listen to this, can an man, those two words rhyme!'
Talk about long words like hippopotamus or short words such as hit,
mit, bit, etc...
Talk about long words and phrases that are fun to say; 'Peter Piper
picked a peck pf pickled peppers.'
Read stories often and talk about the story. Have your child tell you the
story. Encourage your child to write about the story or draw a picture.
Praise and accept all attempts to read or write.
Help your child think of words that rhyme with his or her name, or with
friend's names, or with other family member's names.
Help your child find words that rhyme in Dr. Seuss books or in other
rhyming stories.
Recite familiar nursery rhymes with your child. 'Jack and Jill', 'Twinkle,
Twinkle,' 'Mary had a Little Lamb', 'Little Miss Muffet,' 'Humpty Dumpty,'
'Baa-Baa Black Sheep,' 'Old Mother Hubbard,' and 'Hickory Dickory
Dock.'
Ask your child to finish the end of the rhyme; 'Little Miss Muffet sat of a
_________.'
Occasionally, play with sounds by exaggerating them or repeating them.
For example, 'I'm sssssssssssssso tired. I want to ggggggggggo to
bed.'
Have your child find three objects in the house that begin with a specific
sound. 'Here's a banana.' 'What else can we find that begins with buh?
Talk about sounds in words. For example, 'The boy bounced his ball.'
boy bounce ball, all those words start with the same sound, 'buh'. Have
your child guess what sounds words begin or end with. 'What is the first
sound in fish? What is the sound you hear at the end of hat?'
Point out letters and have your child name them. 'Can you find the letter
that sounds like 'mmmmmmm?'
Play 'I Spy' with letters and sounds in words. FOr example say 'I spy with
my little eye something that begins with the letter P or the sound Puh.'
----------------------------------Syllable Blending--------------------------
First, practice blending compound words and then two syllable words.
You say
the
syllables slowly, and then ask your child to put the parts together and
say
the word fast.
(You say base - ball and then ask your child to put the parts together
and
say the
word baseball.) Model many examples. If your child is having difficulty,
put five
objects on the table and you say each object name (segmenting the
parts).
Having the
actual objects avalible should help your child blend the syllables into a
word and you
can then move on to practice without the objects.
Have a hidden object whose name you say slowly. When your child
correctly
says the
word, reward him/her by showing the object and allowing him/her to
hold it.
Have a puppet say the word parts slowly and your child can say the word
correctly.
--------------------------------Syllable Segmentation---------------------
First, practice segmenting compound words and then two syllable
words. Model
clapping for each syllable in a word. Next, clap the syllables with your
child and finally
ask your child to clap by him/herself.
Use tokens and move the tokens for each syllable in a word.
Cut out pictures of objects with 2 and 3 syllables. Place them face down
and
take turns
with your child as you turn over a picture and clap for the syllables. If
responses are
correct, the picture may be kept.
------------------------Activities for Reading Comprehension------------------
Read to or with your child a familar story to your help work on reading
comprehension. Ask your child to identify the characters, setting,
sequence events, problem and solution in the story.
---------------------Kindergarten High Frequency Words--------------------------
The following are a list of high frequency words that we will be covering
each month. These are words that are commonly used when reading
and writing.
February- I, a, is, the
March- it, see, go
April- to, can, he
May- in, like, at
June- and, me
Make cards with the high frequency words. Use them to play
go fish, concentration, and other card games.
Search for these words while reading a book with your child.
Highlight the high frequency words with your child while looking at a
newspaper or magazine.
