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During this activity, teachers can say "What animal rhymes with hat?". The answer is "cat". From there you can also ask them "What rhymes with cat?".

For differentiation: You can provide visuals for students who may have difficulty with their communication skills.

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For practicing syllables, we can clap out syllables as we are saying the word. We can do this with everyday words or even their names to make it more fun. I would first model it to the children, then explain to them what a syllable is.

For differentiation: I can provide students who may need more support with syllable cards. These cards consist of using color coded cards to indicate each syllable. Instead of clapping, they can move or touch the cards.

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At-home activity: 'iSpy' but with the first sound of a word

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At-home activity: 'iSpy' but with the first sound of a word

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You can use this easy "I spy" game to practice starting sounds at home, on a walk, or even running errand. It's best to select words with emphasized first sounds that are easy to understand. For example, if you are on a walk you can say, "I spy something green that starts with the letter "t" tttttt sound."

Meets the reading needs: Learning to recognize a word's base sounds assists in the development of phonemic awareness in kids, the capacity to recognize, differentiate, and work with individual sounds in spoken language, or phonemes. Since it helps students to break down and modify sounds, which is essential for understanding words while reading, this skill is an essential indicator of reading success.

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This website gives parents resources, videos, and exercises to help with phonemic awareness at home.

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Phonological and Phonemic Awareness: Activities for Your Pre-K Child

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Phonological awareness is a set of critical pre-reading skills: the ability to hear, identify, and play with the sounds in spoken language — including rhymes, syllables, and phonemes. Children with strong phonological awareness skills are ready to become readers.

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Classroom activity: Letter-sound matching 

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Classroom activity: Letter-sound matching 

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Students will match a picture to the corresponding letter that it starts with.

For differentiation: You can give students with visual impairments textured cards, or make the activity simpler for those with cognitive delays by concentrating on just a few important letters.

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Language and phonemic awareness abilities are enhanced by this type of activity. You can encourage your preschoolers to try combining multiple letter sounds to create words.

For differentiation: For children who are just starting to blend sounds, start with basic consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words like "dog" or "cat". Use words like "shop" or "plant," which are blends or digraphs, to challenge more advanced children.

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At-home activity: Letter magnets on fridge

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At-home activity: Letter magnets on fridge

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With the help of magnetic letters, children may practice recognizing letter sounds and building words.

Meets the reading needs: This activity of practicing phonics is physical. Parents can help their children with motor delays by helping them arrange the letters or by using larger magnetic letters.

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Starfall is a fun, interactive website that offers children intriguing phonics lessons.

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Starfall Education: Kids Games, Movies, Books & Music for K-5 and above

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At Starfall, children have fun while they learn - specializing in reading, phonics & math - educational games, movies, books, songs, and more for children K-5 and above.

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With the help of this activity, students may learn new words as well as their meanings, use patterns, and relationships.

For differentiation: I can use magnetic surfaces or Velcro boards so children may arrange objects in the right categories without needing accurate motor skills. Children who struggle with motor skills will find this simpler to manipulate and position.

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This activity encourages children to apply what they already know to solve the puzzle. This helps them develop their comprehension abilities. For example, I can describe a pig and the children will have to use their creative thought to figure it out.

Differentiation: Once Ive given the students the clues, I can utilize sound effects to symbolize the animal or object for those with special needs or auditory learners.

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Reading to your child is important because they learn new words in context, which helps in their comprehension of their meaning. Unfamiliar words are made easier to understand and remember by the context of a story or the pictures that go with them.

Meets the reading needs: By introducing children to a wider variety of words, demonstrating proper language usage, and involving them in meaningful activities, reading to them helps them expand their vocabulary. Through the development of critical language skills necessary for literacy and understanding, it satisfies their reading demands.

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This website's online gaming element is made especially for "creative play," where users may learn how words, sentences, and stories are put together to enhance their language and comprehension skills.

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Speech acts help speakers accomplish things in the world. These include requests (“More milk?”) and demands (“No night-night!”) from children, as well as from adults (“Hush!”). Interestingly enough, parents are seldom precise in their requests.

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During the activity, students repeat after the teacher reads a statement aloud while expressing emotion.

For differentiation: Students with speech difficulties can read shorter sentences based on their capacity or use their speech devices to relay back what they hear.

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Our students texts contain a lot of high frequency words and sight words that they will encounter often. Students may focus more of their attention on decoding and reading new words if they can read those words with confidence.

For differentiation: I am able to let students create sight words using puzzles, magnetic letters, or letter blocks. This can help in the retention of knowledge for students who require hands-on learning experiences.

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During this activity, families can take turns reading aloud books to one another. Not only are you reading to your child, but you are also modeling how fluent reading should be.

Meets the reading needs: Choral reading promotes practice with fluency in a nurturing setting. Families with exceptional children can adjust material to the child's level or utilize assistive technology when necessary.

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This website provides parents with an easy-to-understand explanation of fluency, highlighting the significance of reading fluently for their child's reading development. It offers straightforward activities that parents may do with their children at home to help them become more fluent.

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Your kindergartener is at the beginning stages of reading, and is working hard to master letter sounds, decode simple words, and recognize common sight words. You want to support these new reading skills without putting too much pressure on your child to read more quickly and with more expression. That kind of natural-sounding fluency comes with lots and lots of practice.

You can start gently to build your child's fluency with the activities provided here. Remember that every child develops at a different pace, and your child may not be ready for some of these activities until first grade.

Try these fluency activities at home

Choose the right books

Help your child choose books that he can comfortably read. The "five-finger test" is a useful guideline for beginning readers. As your child reads, count the number of words he cannot read per page. In general, there should be five words or fewer that give him trouble on each page. If a book contains several pages on which you count more than five words that he can't read, consider reading that book to your child until he develops more reading skill.

Listen every day

Once you've found a collection of books that your child can read, listen to your child read every day. Be patient - new readers often read slowly! Offer help when your child gets stuck, and always give lots of praise and encouragement.

Reread favorite books

Building fluency takes a lot of practice! Keep a collection of books that your child can read quickly and easily. Encourage your child to reread favorite books over and over again. With each reading, you may notice your child reading a bit easier, a bit faster, and with a bit more confidence and expression.

Read to your child every day

Model your own fluent reading as you read and reread books with your child. Even though your child may be able to read on her own, continue to find time each day to read books to her that are just beyond her reading level. She will enjoy listening to more advanced stories, and she will hear a great example of fluent reading - how you change your expression throughout a story and read with ease. Your child will hear how you raise your voice at the end of question sentence or how you change your voice for different characters.

Paired or "buddy" reading

Take turns reading aloud. You go first, as your reading provides a model of what good fluent reading sounds like. Then, ask your child to re-read the same page you just read. You'll notice that your child's reading will start to sound more and more like yours. Do this for several pages. Once your child is comfortable enough, and familiar enough with the book, take turns reading page for page.

Echo game

Choose a book at your child's reading level and read a sentence aloud using appropriate expression and pauses. Then, have your child mimic you, reading the same sentence and using the same expression and pauses. Repeat the game every few paragraphs as you read through the book.

Choral reading

Choose a book at your child's reading level and read a page or passage together in unison. You may have to slow your reading down a little to keep pace, but don't slow down too much. Encourage your child to copy your pace and expression

Practice fluency 3 ways: echo reading, partner reading, and repeated reading

This video is from Home Reading Helper, a resource for parents to elevate children's reading at home provided by Read Charlotte. Find more video, parent activities, printables, and other resources at Home Reading Helper.

Sight words

Sight words are common words kids have to recognize instantly without sounding them out. Many sight words are tricky to read - they aren't spelled the way they sound. The activity and videos below discuss how sight word recognition supports fluency, and offer easy ways to help your child learn them. Here's a list of common sight words for kindergarten.

Sight word spy

Tell your child that sight words are "hiding in plain sight" everywhere around us. Your child's "mission" is to spot the sight words out in the world (in the grocery store, on a sign, cereal box, or movie poster) and announce "aha, I found you! This silly game can get your child excited about recognizing words - as well as a boost of confidence from knowing how to read them.

Getting stuck on sight words

Many striving readers struggle with sight words. Reading expert Linda Farrell suggests this teaching sequence: first, be sure your child knows all the letter names, then all the letter sounds - and then you can introduce a few short high-frequency words such as was. Choose words that don't have regular phonetic spelling. (From our video series Reading SOS: Expert Answers to Family Questions About Reading.)

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Fluency: Activities for Your Kindergartener

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Reading fluency is a child's ability to read a book or other text accurately, with reasonable speed, and with appropriate expression. A fluent reader doesn't have to stop and "decode" each word and can focus attention on what the story or text means. Fluency is the bridge between decoding words and understanding what has been read!

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This fun yet simple game is beneficial to students in may ways. This game allows children to practice giving and following directions. They are listening and comprehending what is being told. Also, they can only move when the teacher says "Simon says", which can get tricky if they don't fully understand the rules.

For differentiation: To help students who are visual learners or have trouble understanding spoken directions, I can pair instructions with visual cues or gestures.

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After reading a story throughout the week, I would have the student do a story sequence. During this activity, students will have a paper divided into three sections: beginning, middle, and end. In these sections the students will draw what happened in these three sections of the book. This is show how well the students comprehended the story.

For differentiation: I can make sure to program important story events into the devices of students who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). By doing so, they are able to take an active role by choosing or "saying" the events in the correct order.

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To help with your child's reading comprehension, you can ask them questions about the book before, during, and after you read it.

Meets the reading needs: This fosters a critical thinking approach in children regarding the text. Parents might enhance involvement in their children with exceptionalities by giving them easier books or visual support.

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Epic gives parents numerous ways to make reading enjoyable with over 40,000 multimedia learning alternatives (books, audiobooks, and educational videos). Students have access to a wide range of reading materials to help them advance their literacy.