Helping Your Child At Home

• Read aloud to your child.   

• Have your child read to you.

• Do shared reading.  Your read a sentence.  Your child reads a sentence.

• While in the car have your child read street signs and billboards.

• At the store have your child read product labels.

• Obtain a library card for your child and check out books.

• Encourage your child to write stories on the computer.

• Have your child write thank-you notes and letters to friends and relatives.

• Begin a story and have your child finish it.  Create flash cards for your child's particular needs-alphabet recognition, sight words, vocabulary words, numbers, math facts, etc.  Use these flash cards in a variety of game activities.

• Using magazines, go on a phonics picture hunt looking for pictures of things that begin with specific letters.  Also go on a word hunt and have them look for sight and vocabulary words.