Literacy Tips
1. Literacy Cards About Five Daily Practices
Parents can help their children develop early literacy skills by reading, singing, playing, talking, and writing with their children each day from when they are born until they are five years old.
Parents can help their children develop early literacy skills by reading, singing, playing, talking, and writing with their children each day from when they are born until they are five years old.
2. Reading strategies for parents
This is a handout I share with parents when asked to do a literacy night at an elementary school. The resource describes what to do before, during, and after reading to your child as well as when you are listening to your child read.
3. Parent Literacy Tips
This is also a handout I made that I share with parents when asked to do a literacy night at an elementary school. Many of these tips are relevant for children in any grade.
Tiles and Charts
1. Lowercase and capital letter titlesIf you would also like titles of diagraphs, blends, and chunks/word endings, themeasuredmom.com has a really nice file that you can download for free.
2. Alphabet chart
There are many of these on the web. Scoutingweb.com has a free one with pictures of both the long and short vowel sounds for all five vowels.
3. Free blends and diagraphs chart
After a child can identify and name the sound of all 26 lowercase letters, a parent can begin working on blends and diagraphs.
Letter Formation
1. Lowercase tracing and practice sheets and capital letter tracing and practice sheets2. Language Prompts for Letter Formation These are the words I used as a teacher to guide the formation of the letters.
4. Rainbow Writing Alphabet Book
Rainbow writing is a daily part of most kindergarten classrooms. This alphabet book is from https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/FreeDownload/FREE-Traceable-Alphabet-Book-343798. Have your child trace over both the capital and the lowercase letters in three different colors. They can also draw a picture of something that starts with the letter.
Early Literacy Activities
1. Read, Build, and Write MatsThis activity is a common literacy center in most preschool and kindergarten classrooms. First use the sheets with individual letters. Then use the sheets to help a child learn high frequency words. (Look further down this list for lists of high frequency words.) The reading step would consist of a letter or word written on a card. The building step can consist of tiles, play dough, etc.
2. Create a word wall full of environmental print at home. This is a link to free word wall alphabet headers. Environmental print is the print we see everyday in the world around us in the form of logos and signs. A parent can use food labels and candy wrappers that a child already sees on a daily basis to help him/or her learn that print carries a message. Another option is to make an alphabet book of environmental print with a page or two for each letter.
3. Sound or Elkonin Boxes
This activity is also a common literacy center in most preschool and kindergarten classrooms. This activity uses a box for each sound. In the beginning, start with words that have two sounds such as bow, bee, egg, and shoe. These words would require two boxes. For the word "bow," a child would push his/her finger into the first box while saying the sound "b." Then he/she would slide his/her finger into the second box while saying the sound "ow."
The measured mom website provides a free set of Elkonin boxes as well as more information on this activity.
This 5-7 minute activity works great for individual numbers, letters, and words. This overview of the activity is from a different school district than I taught in. That is why there are more steps in the process than the ones I have mentioned to a few parents.
5. High frequency words
When I taught kindergarten, I started with "a" and " I" first before moving on to two letter words including on, in, it, so, to, do, me, my, and be. Then I moved on to three and four letter words such as the, see, and, are, like, like, play, and said.
These are several free resources for ready made flashcards. Each is going to vary in the words included. If you don't have a teacherspayteachers.com account, I would encourage you to make one.
3.https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Journeys-Kindergarten-High-Frequency-Word-Cards-2066661
Feel free to comment with any questions you have about any of these activities. You may also comment about anything else you would like me to add resources about.
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