https://padlet.com/vjacks33/p0el73nrfcmp Activity Ideas en-us 2017-11-09 15:09:34 UTC 2017-11-09 15:22:34 UTC hello@padlet.com vjacks33 https://padlet.com/vjacks33/p0el73nrfcmp/wish/205309024 Whenever you are reading to – or with – your child, start the session by saying, “We are going on a treasure hunt!”

]]> 2017-11-09 15:11:17 UTC https://padlet.com/vjacks33/p0el73nrfcmp/wish/205309024 vjacks33 https://padlet.com/vjacks33/p0el73nrfcmp/wish/205309524 On the Internet, Cereal Boxes, Advertisements plastered on the side of the bus.
Point out a sign, for example, that has a word you suspect your child doesn’t know. Let her read the sentence or phrase. Then encourage her to guess at the unknown word’s meaning. You can even point out that the pictures on the sign or cereal box give us some hints at the word’s meaning, as well.

]]> 2017-11-09 15:11:57 UTC https://padlet.com/vjacks33/p0el73nrfcmp/wish/205309524 vjacks33 https://padlet.com/vjacks33/p0el73nrfcmp/wish/205310508 you can use reading material that your child already knows well. A favorite bedtime story is a good place to start. 

Now choose a sentence in that story and take one word out as you read it and substitute an appropriate replacement word. Choose a word that your child doesn’t know yet. For example, put a word like “azure” in for the word “blue.” Or use “exhausted” instead of “tired.” Then ask your child what this new and unknown word means.

]]> 2017-11-09 15:13:27 UTC https://padlet.com/vjacks33/p0el73nrfcmp/wish/205310508 vjacks33 https://padlet.com/vjacks33/p0el73nrfcmp/wish/205311663  One of them, “Hidden Hints,” uses the theme of solving a mystery and comes packaged as a briefcase filled with sleuthing tools like flashlights, magnifying glasses and footprints. The game can be played at a variety of levels, all designed to help kids practice using context clues in a reading passage to identify new words.

]]> 2017-11-09 15:15:15 UTC https://padlet.com/vjacks33/p0el73nrfcmp/wish/205311663 vjacks33 https://padlet.com/vjacks33/p0el73nrfcmp/wish/205312063 One way to engage this hand-to-brain learning while teaching context clues is to print the “answers” to the word riddles you’ll be presenting your child on small slips of paper. Start by identifying several of the words you know she’ll struggle with in the passage she’ll be reading. Put simpler versions of those words on your slips of paper. “Mad,” for example, would be on a slip of paper if “angry” was one of the words you know will give her trouble. Make sure to include four or five new words. Then, while reading, let your child use the slips of paper to cover the unknown word she comes across. Once the word is covered with one of the slips of paper, she can read the sentence again – using the new word – and see if it makes sense. ]]> 2017-11-09 15:15:52 UTC https://padlet.com/vjacks33/p0el73nrfcmp/wish/205312063