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This activity is excellent because it encourages sensory and helps students learn while playing. Using cookie cutters for letters or magnetic letters, students can write their names. If you don't have cookie cutters or magnetic letters, you can help your child by rolling out thin strips of play dough to help them create the letters in their name.
You can also focus only on one letter.

Resource: https://homeschoolpreschool.net/3-ways-learn-alphabet-play-dough/

Standard:K.3. Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.

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Reading books aloud to children stimulates their imagination and expands their understanding of the world. It helps them develop language and listening skills and prepares them to understand the written word.

Resources: https://www.readingrockets.org/article/reading-your-child#:~:text=Reading%20books%20aloud%20to%20children,to%20understand%20the%20written%20word.&text=Even%20after%20children%20learn%20to,you%20to%20read%20aloud%20together.

Where to get free books:

Local Libraries

Standard:  K.9 With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.

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Storytelling is a vital literacy activity. Easily show pictures from your phone or photo album. Start by telling a story to your child, and then ask your child to tell you about different photos that are likely to get them talking. This could be a special event or a simple image that makes them happy.
They will learn how to tell stories from an image and tell them from beginning to end.

Resources: https://www.notimeforflashcards.com/2020/05/preschool-literacy-activities-at-home.html

Standard:1.C.ECa Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with teacher assistance,
provide additional detail.

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Take advantage of daily activities. While in the kitchen, have your child with you. Discuss the food you'll be eating, color, texture, and taste. Ask them
Questions to ask:
Where do you think this food comes from? Which foods do you like? Which do you dislike?

If you feel comfortable, ask them to set the table. Such as, can you please put down one plate at the table. You are giving clear directions.
Help them use prepositions by  identifying who the napkin belongs to: "It is my napkin."

Resource:https://www.readingrockets.org/oral-language-comprehension-activities-your-pre-k-child

Standard:1.B.ECa Use language for a variety of purposes

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While out running errands, you can encourage literacy. Choose a letter as you're walking into the store. Make a game of finding things in the store that starts with that letter. For example, for the letter "p," you could find peanuts, popcorn, pineapple, paper, and pizza. Emphasize the letter "p" and the sound it makes with each of your "p" words. This helps students make connections from the classroom to the outside world.

Resource:https://www.readingrockets.org/article/grocery-store-literacy-preschoolers

Standard: - K.3. Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.

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Create or learn songs to expand your child's vocabulary. One idea: makeup songs to describe your daily routines. Or even sing along with popular songs from shoes or movies they like. This exposes students to new words and how to use them in different places.

Resource: https://www.readingrockets.org/oral-language-comprehension-activities-your-pre-k-child

Songs:
We don't Talk about Bruno: https://youtu.be/bvWRMAU6V-c
What do you do every day? : https://youtu.be/_oEAdz3MAj0

Standard: 1.1. 2.C.ECa: Interact with a variety of types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems, rhymes, songs)

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Hide alphabet cards around the house. Have your child find them, say the letter, say the sound, and bring it to you. If your child is bilingual, tell them what language you are doing. You split it by doing English for the first 10 minutes and Spanish for the last 10 minutes.

For Spanish, it could include hiding the letters such as

CH, Ch

LL, Ll

Ñ

RR, rr

Resource: https://bilingualkidspot.com/2019/05/20/literacy-activities-for-preschoolers-kindergarten-toddler/

Standard: Standard: 1.B.ECa: Use language for a variety of purposes

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When there's is playtime in the house, help students play games that require talking, listening, following directions, and giving directions.
Play "I Spy" with your child using words that describe an object's position. ("I spy something on the carpet, in front of the couch, next to the dog.")
Play games such as "Red-Light Green-Light." These games will be fun with your child and help them describe people and the things around them.

Resources: https://www.readingrockets.org/oral-language-comprehension-activities-your-pre-k-child

Standard: 1. C.ECa: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with teacher assistance, provide additional detail.