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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

Christmas tree that has no electric lights (or the paper will be a fire

hazard).

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