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Ideas for Helping at Home
- Write the sight words on
a tic-tac-toe game board. Each player chooses to be X or O. In order to mark
your X or O you must say the word correctly. Take turns. The first one to get
three in a row is the winner.
- Play Concentration. Write
the sight words on index cards. Make 2 sets of the same words. Choose a card,
read the word. Choose another card, say the word. If the 2 cards match you get
to keep the cards. The person with the most cards is the winner.
- “What am I?” Choose an
object. Give clues to help the other person guess the object. “It starts with
‘c’. It has the short o sound in the middle. It’s shaped like a circle. It has
numbers on it. What is it?” (clock) Take turns.
- Decide on a particular
sound you’re looking for. “Look for all the objects in the house that start
with ‘p’.” “Look for all the objects in the kitchen that have the long e (ee)
sound.”
- Find words you know on
your cereal box.
- Find words you know on
signs as you travel to and from school.
- Write the sight words on
index cards. Sort the words by the number of letters in each word. Sort the
words by the vowel sound. Sort the words by the number of syllables.
- Write simple sentences
using the sight words for your child to read to you. Let your child make up
sentences with the sight words. They will use words that are difficult for
them to read, but if it’s their sentence they will remember the harder words!
- Write 5 or 6 words on a
piece of paper. Secretly choose a word and then give clues to identify the
word. Ex.- pan man van fan can
“I’m thinking of something that you can ride in.”
“I’m thinking of something I use to cook with.”
Take turns so that your child is writing words he knows then giving the clues.
- Play Hangman.
- Rhyming riddles. “What
rhymes with hit and starts with s ?”
“What rhymes with land and starts
with h ?”
- Use a picture in a book
or magazine. You will say the name of an object but you’ll leave out the
first sound. Ex. – if you see a dog you’ll say og. If you see a house
you’ll say ouse. Or you can leave off the ending sound. Take turns.
13. Create a
rhyme. Once I saw a cat, and it wore a funny _________.
Once I saw a goat, and it wore a funny
________.
Once I saw a bee, and it wore a funny ________.
You can have fun
with these if you act silly. Just make sure it rhymes!
14.Silly Sentences –
Try to make up a sentence with all the words starting with the same
sound. “Six snakes sell sodas.” “Pink pigs play perfectly.”
15. Use magnetic
letters and make the sight words on your refrigerator. Take a letter away and
see if the others can guess what letter is missing.
16. Use Alphabets
cereal and make the words. Then say each word before you eat it!
17. Use Play-Doh to
make the words.
18. Write a short note
to put in your child’s lunch box.
19. Encourage your
child to write thank-you notes.
20. Comprehension –
Question your child as you read a story. Discuss how the character
feels. What does this remind you of? How is this story like another story we’ve
read? What’s your favorite part?
Make puppets to retell a
familiar story.
Create a new story for a
familiar character.
21. Write the words to
a familiar nursery rhyme on separate index cards. Put the words in order to make
the rhyme. Even beginning readers can sequence the cards by looking at the first
letter, the capitalization and punctuation, and the length and shape of the
words. When it’s put together read the rhyme, pointing to each word.
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