Category: Language and Literacy

  • Tell Me A Story

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to tell stories.

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Work together to create about 20 “story cards” on index cards (or paper). You can make them all at once, or spread it out over several days and
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  • I Know That Story

    Your Child Will Learn

    To enjoy reading familiar books with adults.

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Choose one of your child’s favorite books, ideally one with repeating phrases.
    2. Prompt your child to join you when you read the repetitive phrases on
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  • Making Connections

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to connect what they read in books to real-life experiences.

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Invite your child to read with you and let them choose the book.
    2. While reading, connect this story to your own
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  • Picture Walk Read-Aloud

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to use a book’s pictures to tell a story.

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Choose a picture book that tells a story (ideally one your child hasn’t read before or doesn’t know very well).
    2. Point to
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  • Bilingual Word Chart

    Your Child Will Learn

    Communication of words in different languages

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Cut-out 4-5 pictures from magazines and newspapers or print pictures from the internet (picture examples: water, foods, facial expressions, body parts, animals, etc.)
    2. Glue the pictures
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  • Letters on the Road

    Your Child Will Learn

    To identify uppercase and lowercase letters

    Here’s What to Do

    1. While on a long drive or bus ride, ask your child to identify uppercase and lowercase letters on road and traffic signs throughout your journey. (Or,
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  • Picture Rhymes

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to identify two words that rhyme

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Cut out 4-8 picture examples of words that will rhyme from magazines, newspapers, and junk mail ads (or, find rhyming objects from around your home,
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  • Picture This!

    Your Child Will Learn

    Using pictures to spell words by sequencing the sounds of letters 

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Select picture examples of words with 3-4 letters from the internet, magazines, or newspapers
    2. Hold up the pictures, slowly saying the
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  • Sentence Hunter

    Your Child Will Learn

    Use simple words to form sentences with words in the proper order

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Create a variety of word strips by writing simple nouns, pronouns, verbs, and adjectives on small strips of paper that
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  • Say and Make Drawings

    Your Child Will Learn

    To participate in shared storytelling.

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather drawing and coloring materials and a large sheet of paper.
    2. Remember something that you did with your child recently. You’ll create a drawing about the event
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