Category: Emergent Reading

  • Seeing Sight Words

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to recognize, say, and spell sight words

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Create a list of simple sight words that your child can learn to recognize without sounding them out and write them on poster paper. 
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  • Recognizing Feelings

    Your Child Will Learn

    Words we use to describe different facial expressions and emotions

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Look through a book or magazine with pictures of people’s faces.
    2. Point to each face and describe the facial expression the person
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  • Tell Me a Story About Me

    Your Child Will Learn

    They will learn about story sequence through a personal story

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Think of a story about your child’s life that you’d like to share.  It can be something funny or special that captures
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  • Book Play

    Your Child Will Learn

    Retell a story from a favorite book through dramatic performance

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Ask your child to select a book that they enjoy reading.  Read the book together and discuss the characters and settings, and
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  • Books and Facts

    Your Child Will Learn

    Learn about real-life topics through nonfiction books

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Select a nonfiction picture book to read with your child. For example, select a factual book about transportation, nature, animals, careers, sports, food, art, or
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  • A Look in the Library

    Your Child Will Learn

    To find new books they like in a library.

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Go to your local library with your child or children and explore the different sections, floors, or special areas; point out important areas,
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  • Let’s Go to the Library

    Your Child Will Learn

    That they can find some favorite books at the library and take them home!

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Go to your local library and find the infant and toddler part of the children’s section. Many libraries
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  • Texture Tales

    Your Child Will Learn

    To look at and interact with books.

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Find a board book with different textures your child can touch. (Or, tell a story out loud and have your child touch the textures of
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  • Homemade Books

    Your Child Will Learn

    Independently explore a homemade book with different texture

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather safe and child-friendly materials with different textures to create a homemade book for your child (examples: corrugated cardboard, bubble wrap, fabric, recycled plastic,
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  • Food Letter Play

    Your Child Will Learn

    Identify letters and sounds using edible alphabet letters 

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Purchase edible alphabet letters from your local grocery store. For example: alphabet cereal, crackers, cookies, or pasta (cook the alphabet pasta first). (Note: if
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