Reading Activities That Boost Children's Literacy
Reading Activities That Boost Children's Literacy
WORD BANK
Materials Needed
File box for 4x 6 file cards, pack of alphabet dividers, file cards, small
picture cutouts or stickers, white glue
Directions
Here's a new savings plan for your children: The children savor a new word
every day, then save it in a personal bank. Day after day, they draw on these
savings for reading fun and reinforcement.
Let each child decorate a file box with colorful pictures or stickers.
Inside go the pack dividers (in alphabetical order), and behind them enough
file cards to fill the box.
Each morning take a card from the back of the box and ask for a new word your
children would like you to write. Any word is okay. Write in large upper
and lowercase letters while your children watch and repeat the word.
Hand children the new cards to do with as they please for a while. Your
children may want to draw a picture on it, mail it in a toy mailbox, read it
to a friend, tack it up on a bulletin board, or tape it to the refrigerator.
When your children have finished with the word, help file it in the bank
behind the appropriate letter divider.
Each morning (or whatever time you wish) your children can take out the old
word cards, read or repeat the words, redeposit the cards, and receive a new
word. When a child has saved for a while, rather than remove all the words
for review each day, draw one word from each letter of the alphabet or draw
all the words filed under one letter.
BOOK CHAIN
Materials Needed
Colored construction paper, felt pen, cellophane tape, thumbtacks or masking
tape
Directions
After they read a book, children add a link on a paper chain. Can one child
make the chain reach from the ceiling to the floor? Can two or three readers
cooperate and make the chain go all around the room-twice?
The children cut pieces of colored construction paper into 1 x 6 strips and
store them in a handy container -- a rinsed frozen juice can will do.
After finishing a book, the reader writes the book title on a paper strip,
then overlaps and tapes the ends to form a link. The first link is anchored
with a tack or masking tape to a starting point: a corner of the ceiling, a
bedpost, the top bookshelf. The second paper strip is linked through the
first, the third through the second, and so on as the chain lengthens.
Keep the chain gong until your children reach a goal or lose interest.
Perhaps you can save a long chain for a party decoration or put it around a
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