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Blending Techniques
Blending Techniques
Blending Techniques is a tool to assist parents in helping their child decode unknown words while they are reading. These are just a few of the techniques that assist in decoding. Have your child teach you which ones they are using at school.
Sight Word Fun: Practicing Sight Words with A Twist
PAPER PLATE TOSS
PAPER PLATE TOSS
Write sight words on paper plates. Use them like frisbees to throw after reading the word.
Write sight words on paper plates. Use them like frisbees to throw after reading the word.
GO FISH
GO FISH
Use a duplicate set of word cards to play “Go Fish.” You can easily make your own cards out of index cards.
STEPPING STONES
STEPPING STONES
Place the word cards on the floor, making a fun stream going across the room. Have your child walk over the stream. As they step onto the stepping stone (word), have them say the word before they move on to get to the other side of the stream.
Place the word cards on the floor, making a fun stream going across the room. Have your child walk over the stream. As they step onto the stepping stone (word), have them say the word before they move on to get to the other side of the stream.
TIC-TAC-TOE
TIC-TAC-TOE
Another fun way to practice sight words is to write words in the tac-tac-toe spaces. Take turns selecting a space to read. If read correctly, an X or O is placed on the space until someone wins.
Another fun way to practice sight words is to write words in the tac-tac-toe spaces. Take turns selecting a space to read. If read correctly, an X or O is placed on the space until someone wins.
Conversation Cards during Reading
Conversation Cards during Reading
Use the easy to follow comprehension cards with your child while reading to get your young learner thinking about what they are reading.
K2ConversCards.pdfComprehension Questions
Comprehension Questions
Before, During, and After Reading
Asking questions before, during, and after your child reads to you or vice versa is a very important part of comprehension. It helps the reader to clarify what he or she is reading and to better understand the text. Ultimately, asking good questions is a way for children and parents to monitor comprehension while reading and also, develop critical thinking skills.
20220916_153722.pdfPhonemic Awareness Warm-Up Cards
Phonemic Awareness Warm-Up Cards
Warm up cards are a simple way to help your child review phonemic awareness skills at home. Do one skill a night or every other day for practice to continue your child's learning. The skill is on the bottom of the card.
3 Part Drill
3 Part Drill
Click on this link to access a website that can help practice letter identifying, blending pseudowords (nonsense words), and specific phonics skills your child can practice reading.
Game Time!!
Scrabble Shenanigans
It's time to dust off that old Scrabble board and give it a phonics twist. Challenge your child to create words using the letters they have, but with a phonics rule in mind. For example, they can only use words with a specific vowel sound or words that start with a particular consonant blend such as thief or blend. Not only will they be sharpening their phonics skills but also having fun with you!
Modified Phonics Board Games
If you have any board game at home, change the directions slightly! Every time a player takes a turn, they move their piece and follow and directions on the game board and they have to pull a card from a stack.
The stack of cards would be created by you, and the cards would contain alphabet letters, high frequency words or words that match the skill that they are learning at school or previously taught. They have to read the word aloud to you.
Vocabulary Ideas and Activities
The interactions you have with your children every day are prime opportunities for vocabulary. Have a conversion about your day and their day, at the grocery store, in the car and talk about what you see such as new signs. Use new words to describe things that you experience in context. Use synonyms (same) .
Reading: Reading to your child or as your child is reading to you, is a great way to support indirect vocabulary learning, as they will hear familiar words and how to use them in context. If you come across a new word, you can use this opportunity to teach and support your child to use his/her own word learning strategies.
New Experiences: Get your child involved in new experiences that you can do together e.g. baking, gardening, arts & crafts, even tidying up. These present opportunities for exposure and use of new words such as recipe, whisk, trowel, etc.
Encourage you child to read material other than books such as cereal boxes, magazines, newspapers, etc. Discuss the new words with your child. New words can be learned in a multitude of places.
Play word games: Games are excellent ways for flexing children's vocabulary. Twenty Questions is a good game that assist in vocabulary. especially on long car rides. One person picks something in a designated category, like a sport, superhero, or animal, and the others take turns asking questions to deduce it. You can work in new vocabulary words such as "Does the bird you're thinking of swoop down to get its food or does it hover over a plant to eat?"
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