Your child will be learning to read this year and you can help!  

Recommended Daily Activities with your child:

• Read together every night

• Practice letter names and sounds

• Read high frequency words (See Below)

• Write first and last name in title case (only first letter is capitalized)

Activities for practicing Letter Name, Letter Sound or High Frequency Words are:

• Make flashcards on index cards and have your child practice reading them over and over.

• Play “Go Fish” on index cards (write each word/letter on two cards).

• Word Searches/High Frequency Word Scavenger Hunt: Find high frequency words on food boxes or other available print material (magazines, grocery shopping, street signs, etc.)

• Letter Magnets: Have your child use letter magnets to spell the word.

• Memory game: Make duplicates of letters or high frequency word cards and play the memory game.

• Bingo: Make 5 x 5 grids and put high frequency words in the squares. Call out a high frequency word and have your child find the word on his/her Bingo board; play the same rules as Bingo.

• Write high frequency words with glitter glue

• Write high frequency words with “Playdoh”

• Write high frequency words with shaving cream

• Put craft sand on a paper plate. Have your child practice tracing high frequency words in the sand.

• Jump, hop, clap, or tap out the letters of the high frequency word (t-h-e “the”).