Pre School Language and Literacy
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Musical rhyming hops: put a series of pictures on the floor like a picture of a frog/dog in random order. Play music and have your child hop around on the pictures one by one. When the music stops, your child has to identify the picture. EG: If your child jumped on the dog, have he/she find the picture that rhymes with the picture they landed on. Take those away and repeat until they are all gone.
Musical Sounds: Write letters on a piece of paper or note cards and then place them on the floor. Play music and have your child walk or move around when the music is playing. When the music stops, your child needs to get on a letter. You ask your child to identify the letter and say the sound that the letter makes. Afterwards, you take away a letter and repeat until all of the other letters are gone.
Fishing for letters
Get some paper and draw simple fish pictures and cut out. Write the letters of your child’s name on the fish and have them go fishing for letters. As they catch a fish, have them identify that letter. To make this game more difficult add more fish all of the letters of the alphabet. You can even have them make that letters sound and think of something that begins with that letter.
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Recognize and name some upper and lower case letters of the alphabet.
Baking cookies in the kitchen can offer lots of Language opportunities. The children can follow directions. Listen to the recipes and learn new vocabulary. Allow them to ask questions. Measure the ingredients. Having a conversations about the steps allows multiple exchanges in the conversation. Enjoy!
Rhyming Riddles Primary Objectives
15a. Notices and discriminates rhyme
Why It’s Important
Children can develop their understanding of rhyme by thinking of rhyming words. Giving your child riddles to figure out keeps him interested as he uses thinking skills to solve the word riddle.
Materials
None
What You Do
1. Invite your child to play a game called “Rhyming Riddles.” Explain that rhyming words sound alike at the end. Offer a few examples and invite your child to name any rhyming words he knows.
2. Explain to your child that a riddle is a word puzzle or a word problem that he will figure out the answer to. Pose a riddle that prompts your child to supply a rhyming word. I’m thinking of something that you wear on your hands in the winter that rhymes with kittens. What am I thinking of?
3. If your child gives an incorrect response, offer comments or questions to help him figure out the answer. Yes, we do wear gloves on our hands in the winter. Listen as I say the two words: kittens… gloves. Do they sound the same at the end? Can you think of something else you might wear on your hands that sounds like the word kittens?
4. Continue the game for as long as your child is interested.
5. You can use this activity throughout your day by making riddles for your child to answer.
Let’s go to the kitchen for our snack. We’re having something that rhymes with suit.
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