How Can You Learn Together at Home?
As the school year begins, your child has already started developing the skills to become a stronger reader and writer. It's essential to continue this practice at home. Throughout the year, I'll share some easy tips you can use to support your child's learning.
For additional information on resources on reading/writing, activities/games, what to read at home, or our curriculum, please visit my wakelet site: MBSD Literacy
Tip for this week:
Play with sounds and words together during your daily routines!
- Notice when you say or see words that rhyme. For example, “I can’t find my blue shoe. Wait, blue and shoe rhyme!” Also, work with your child to make a list of silly words that rhyme (shoe, goo, true, flew) or read stories together with rhyming patterns.
- Notice words that start with the same sound. For example, “We will make mashed potatoes for dinner. I heard the /m/ sound at the beginning of make and mashed.”
- Notice words with more than one meaning; for example, the phrase piece of cake. Use the phrase differently to show its various meanings, such as, “Would you like to eat a piece of cake? That problem was a piece of cake!” Look for examples in videos, pictures, or books showing each word or phrase's meaning.
- If you speak another language at home, or if your child speaks another language, it’s essential to pay attention to the meaning of new words and phrases in English as your child learns to read. Use pictures, music, or movements to help them match an English word or phrase with its meaning. Use the word or phrase in various ways to show its different meanings, and translate new words or phrases into your or your child's home language when possible and helpful.
Save the Date!!!
Hilltop's 2nd Annual Literacy Night!
Thursday November 21st 5:30-7:30pm
*More information coming out soon!
