• One at-home activity:

  The activity that helps support learning vocabulary would to send two sets of vocabulary cards home, and having students engage with a game of memory with their family.

  
  

• Website recommendation to assist families with developing the component at home, would be, "Reading Rockets" - Vocabulary: Activities for Your Kindergartener.

  This website provides step-by-step guidance for families on how to support their child's learning. It offers not only written activities but also instructional videos that demonstrate how to put the activities into practice at home.

• Two developmentally appropriate classroom activities to support development of the component:

  • Playing blending softball - Have students take turns hitting the ball ( Starting the word sound), and the child who then gets up to Bat will be the child who sounds out the entire word as a whole.

  • Doing a game of, "Rhyme Relay: Divide the class into teams and set up a relay race with a rhyming twist. Prepare a set of pictures (or use real life objects)" ( McArdle,2023).

• One at-home activity:

  Having families sing rhymes together, this can be done by the educator simply sending home a list of rhyming words, and having the families work together to create songs.

• One website to assist families with developing the component at home:

• The website known as, "My Teaching Cupboard", has a variety of activities that can be done at home to help support phonemic awareness. Many of them don't require any or if anything very low cost supplies.

• One at-home activity:

  Have students bring home a decodable book, that has the vocabulary words we are working on. Then having them read it for each of their family members and highlight the vocabulary words they understand and may needed greater context clues to grasp.

  
  

• One website to assist families with developing the component at home:

  I believe the website known as; Florida Center for Reading Research, effectively addresses all key components of reading instruction, with a particular emphasis on fluency. It offers at least three targeted activities, each accompanied by printable practice sheets and detailed instructions to guide families implementation and support skill development.

• An effective activity is having students read a story that includes a clear sequence of events, such as The Three Little Pigs, and then returning to their seats to organize the events of the story in the correct order. This helps reinforce their understanding of story structure and strengthens sequencing skills, which are essential for reading comprehension.

• Having students write down and or draw a Picture of events that happened in a book we read. Having students then sit in the teacher chair to share with their peers.

One at-home activity:

An at home activity would be having families bake or cook together and follow a recipe. Allowing them to not comprehend the recipe text as they place ingredients and follow directions.

One website to assist families with developing the component at home:

A helpful tool is a video recorded by Valley Central School District, which helps families understand the importance of asking questions throughout and at the end of a story. It helps families understand what type of questions to ask. It helps families to see how we ask questions in the classroom and how easily comprehension practice can be with everyday activities at home.