- Read aloud to your child every day and make it an
emotionally close and shared time together.
- Read and reread favorite nursery rhymes to reinforce
the sound patterns of language.
- Make your own alphabet book.
- Visit the library regularly.
- Allow children to participate in activities that
involve reading and writing(cooking, making grocery
lists, sending letters).
- Create rhymes together. Once I saw a cat, and
it wore a funny--------.
- Help children create silly alliterative sentences,
Six snakes sell sodas.
- While walking to the park, listen for sounds that
may occur (water dripping, a car turning, a bird call
etc.)
- One of the first printed words children often recognize
is their own name. Make name tags for a bedroom
door, point out words that also start with the same
first letter.
- Play the guessing game "I'm thinking of something
in this room that starts with the B sound."
- Help your child develop a descriptive vocabulary. For
example, on a walk call your child's attention to the
rough, spiky leaves of a tree or the striped, velvety
petals.
- Arrange magnetic letters on the refrigerator and
encourage your child to play with them. Spell
out names they know, places to go.
- After watching a television show, ask your child
to tell you about the story, what did he like, when
did that happen, and why did she do that?
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