Have your child come up with pictures or words for each of the pages (corresponding to each letter of the alphabet), personalizing each page to his liking.įor example instead of the standard, “A is for apple,” boring nonsense, your child may come up with “A is for ‘awesome,’” a word that my kid overuses the heck out of, honestly. Grab 13 sheets of paper, cut them in half and bind your book by stapling the ends together. Set a three-minute timer and vary difficulty of play by including more or less words, depending on your child’s reading level. If a player draws a “ZAP” stick, they must return all of their words to the can. The object of the game is to collect the most Popsicle sticks in a given time. If they can correctly read the word, they keep it. Play works like this: each player takes turn drawing a stick. Place all Popsicle sticks in the coffee can your child has been banging on all day. Common words include “I”, “we”, “the”, “me”, “my”, “is” and “a.” On the remaining three sticks, write the word “ZAP.” Then, write 6 or 7 sight words onto 22 sticks. To set up the game, first begin by grabbing 25 Popsicle sticks. This high frequency word game works best with two or more players. “A mosquito eating a burrito?” “A witch scratching an itch?” and “A beagle petting an eagle?” 2. Here is some inspiration to get you going: Then, take the kookiness to the next level by putting them on the spot to come up with rhymes after “Did you ever see a_,” Sing the song with your child, first using the standard lyrics. When children come up with rhyming words, they are first recognizing that words can be grouped together (by ending sound), and are practicing phonemic awareness (the skill that allows them to identify and manipulate beginning sounds of words).
Besides being torturously hard to stop humming long after your child has gone to bed, the impromptu rhyming in this song allows for some great reading skill building.
Songs like the ultra silly, “ Down by the Bay”, serve several purposes. These fun kindergarten reading activities draw kids in with the promise of the same high-energy excitement that takes them everywhere else as they get a daily, fun dose of literacy. Join me in anchoring your human lightning bolt down, and engage your little one with these kindergarten reading activities. I feel as though I only see her in blurs - running outside, climbing a tree, zooming down the street on her bike and gobbling food down in a flash. These days, it’s inconceivable that my energetic kindergartener is that same ready reader. When she was two - but a cherubic blob - she would sit herself down with a book and trace the lines of the pictures with her itty-bitty sausage fingers. Once upon a time, my daughter was the most adorable literacy bug.
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