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Phonological awareness: Is the ability to hear, recognize, and play with the sounds in spoken language. Phonological awareness is a group of skills that include a child’s ability to: Identify words that rhyme, Count the number of syllables in a word, recognize alliteration, segment a sentence into words, recognize and play with individual sounds in spoke words

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Syllable Cards: Use printable picture cards to sort according to the number of syllables in words. Children can look at the picture say the word, clap the word out and then sort the card in the appropriate pile.

Nursery Rhymes: Recite nursery rhymes, pause to talk about rhyming words and how they sound the same at the end.

Rhyming and repetition is always great to enhance phonological skills, when reciting and practicing nursery rhymes children learn the rhythm of the different rhymes. Clapping out syllables in words helps children realize how a word can be broken down and begin to understand how to sound out words. Children with exceptionalities can hold a puppet or use felt board pieces when reciting the nursery rhymes.

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Phonological Awareness Activities: At Home 

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Phonological Awareness Activities: At Home 

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“I Spy” First Sounds:Practice beginning sounds with this simple “I Spy” game at home, on a walk, or at the grocery store. Choose words with distinctive, easy-to-hear beginning sounds. For example, if you’re in the bathroom you can say, “I spy something red that starts with the “s” ssssss sound (soap).” Continue with other areas of the house and finding new items to “spy”.

Parent Resource: Pbskids.org “Grovers Rhyme Time!” Is a fun rhyming interactive game for kids to help with phonological awareness.

This is a great game for parents to do with their child in the home when they are busy cooking dinner or putting away laundry, why not make it a learning opportunity? When cooking pasta and saying, "I spy something that holds water and is on the stove."

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Phonics:  is a method of teaching reading and spelling that helps children learn the relationship between letters and the sounds they represent.

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Slap the letter sounds:

Printout and laminate clip art flies, write a letter on each fly. Give the child a fly swatter. Say a word and have students swat each “letter fly” as they say the sounds.

Play Word Bingo:

Create bingo boards to focus on phonics skills. Put letters or words in each square. Call out the letter or word and let the child cover it with a fun marker.

Both of these activities are great for children with or without exceptionalities but to accommodate if a child doesn't want to hold the fly swatter he/she can hit the fly with their hand. Using dabbers or a small smooth stone is great for bingo and showing the card after saying it out loud helps children identify the letter or word on the bingo card.

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Make a word hopscotch: Place a word card next to or inside each square. Students play by jumping to each square and reading the words as they go. Include words with targeted phonics patterns for students to practice again and again.

This activity is great for parents to do with their children at home because it combines gross motor with learning letters or words. Children retain information when they can move their bodies at the same time. Children with exceptionalities can jump on a letter on a square.

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Fluency: is a child’s ability to read accurately, with expression, and at a reasonable speed while understanding what they read. It’s a foundational skill that helps children develop literacy and makes learning easier. Fluent readers can focus on the meaning of a text instead of decoding each word.

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ABC Cookie Cutters: Use letter shaped cookie cutters with play dough and or/ cookie dough. Take time to name and point to each letter. Have the child repeat the name of letters.

Letter Sorting: Sort letters using magazines, empty boxes, junk mail, and more.

Showing children that letters are everywhere and exposing children to letters will help with fluency in later grades. Children can pretend to make letter cookies with play dough. Letting children cut letters out of magazines or off of junk mail is great for environmental print awareness since these are items they see their parents use daily. Children with exceptionalities can use the cookie cutters in the sand if they don't like the feel of play dough and a teacher can cut out the letter they want from the magazine and help them glue it on a paper.

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Letters Everywhere: Name letters on signs license plates, and more when you are riding in the car or taking a walk.Online Resource: storylineonline.net Click on an interactive story and it will read the child.

Environmental print is huge for children learning ot read and understanding words have meaning. When taking a walk or driving showing children different signs and what they mean helps children realize that the sign has a meaning.

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Comprehension: is the ability to understand and interpret spoken, written, or visual text. It’s an active process that involves extracting and constructing meaning from the text.

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Act it out: Read stories such as The Three Bears or Three Billy Goats Gruff. Act out the stories using different sized stuffed animals or let children make puppets or dress up to act out the story

Felt Board Stories: Have children retell a story with felt board pieces

I love having children act out stories! It helps them have a connection to the story and aide in retelling the story. Children with exceptionalities can put on a costume if they want and stand in front of the class and hold a picture form the story or object. The felt board story is also a great option for children with exceptionalities or puppets to act out the story.

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Tell Me About It: After reading to your child ask your child 'WH' questions about the story that you just read. Who, What, Where, When, Why

Resource: www.abcya.com This website has a lot of fun interactive games to help with reading comprehension.

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Vocabulary:  is the depth of a child’s knowledge of words, and they build four types of vocabulary as they grow: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

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Pictionary: Play Pictionary using easy words that a preschooler can draw. Make a stack of easy words a child can draw, pick a word from the stack and say the word let the child draw the word on a white board or piece of paper. Words like sun, dog, person, ball, ect.

Word Building Blocks: Laminate letter cards and put one letter on a wooden block. Put a basket of words next to the blocks, children can build a word using the word blocks.

This activity helps a child visualize the word with helps form stronger associations and recall them more easily. Children with exceptionalities can create the word with play dough if they don't want to draw. When building the word children with exceptionalities can build the tower and say the letters or repeat the letter that the teacher says.

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Cooking together and reading a recipe: Cook with your child while reading a simple recipe. Introduce the “cooking” words to your child to enhance their vocabulary…measure, level, sift, melt, ect…