Quick and Easy Ways to support literacy and learning at home:
Reading books with your child anytime (i.e. before school, after school, bedtime)
This quick video provides suggestions on how to make reading at home active reading
Playing rhyming games - 'Do these words rhyme?' or Cat and hat rhyme because they sound the same at the end...can you think of a word that rhymes with hat?
Drawing/coloring - identifying the colors used in pictures
I spy games (i.e. - I spy something that starts with the sound /b/ (book), etc.)
Catch that Sound Game - Say a word, such as, bat, and ask your child to catch the first sound and say what sound they heard at the beginning of the word (/b/)
Daily conversations about their day, what they did, best part of their day, who they played with, what they ate, etc.
Oral storytelling (kids love to hear stories about when they were babies)
Singing the alphabet song (slowing down at l, m, n, o, p so it doesn't sound like one letter)
Matching games - (i.e. - use index cards to make a letter matching game (Capital letters to Capital letters or lower case to lower case and/or Capital to lower case letters)
Practice recognizing the letters in their first names
Board games
Following 1 and 2 step directions at home
(i.e. - first put your shoes on then put your coat on)
Practicing zipping/buttoning their clothing and tying their shoes to help improve fine motor skills