Reading

Reading Tips for at-home practice

• Read to your child.

• Read with your child.

• Have your child read to you.

• Take a picture walk through the book before you read (looking at the pictures will help your child with the vocabulary they will be reading).

• ABC Memory Using cut up pieces of paper, print 5-10 letters twice and have children uncover the pairs of matching letters. Every time they flip over a letter, they must say the sound of that letter. If they make a match, they keep the pair. Whoever has the most matches at the end wins. (After they know the sounds for those 5-10 letters, move on to a new set of 5-10 letters. Once they know all 26 sounds, have them match capital letters to lowercase letters: a – A)

• ABC Match Write 6 capital letters down the left side of a piece of paper and the corresponding lowercase letters down the right side, but not across from each other. Have your child “connect” the capitals to their matching lowercase pair. Try 6 other letters on a different day until your child has matched all of the letters.

• Letter Mix Up Write simple 3 or 4 letter words (cat, dog, mom, car, stop, hand) on index cards or regular paper (one card per word). Cut up one word at a time and mix up the letters so that your child orders them to reform the original word, and then sound out the word together. If your child makes a mistake, read their word so they can see that it doesn’t make sense.

• Beginning Sounds Print in large lettering a capital letter followed by its lowercase. Have your child draw all the pictures they can think of that begin with that letter. Then, have your child name all of the pictures and together you can label them.