Category: Sounds of Language

  • Rhyme Time

    Your Child Will Learn

    An introduction to rhyming words

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Select a nursery rhyme from the attachment linked below, or use one you already know.
    2. As you recite or sing the rhyme, act out the words for
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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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  • My Word Box

    Your Child Will Learn

    Sequence words to make complete sentences

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Give your child a small box with a lid or cover that they can decorate and tell them the box will hold new words they learn
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  • Do You Hear What I Hear

    Your Child Will Learn

    To separate the beginning sounds of spoken words with help from adults

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Visit a public place where your child will hear different sounds of things in the surrounding environment; examples of places
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  • Letter Blend Bingo

    Your Child Will Learn

    Words have letter blends in the beginning, middle, or end of them

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Use the Letter Blend Bingo page and word cards to play this game
    2. Explain to your child that you will
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  • Letter Hide & Seek

    Your Child Will Learn

    To identify letter sounds in the middle of words.

    Here’s What to Do

    1.  Think of familiar 3-letter words with a vowel in the middle. Examples: cup, kid, top, nap, bus, pen, fox, get, cat, dog, etc.
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  • Community I Spy

    Your Child Will Learn

    To identify the beginning, middle, and end sounds of spoken words with help from adults.

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Plan an outing in your community, like a visit to the park, a pond, or shopping center.
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  • Syllable Movement

    Your Child Will Learn

    Count 1-3 syllables in words with help from adults.

    Here’s What to Do

    1. With your child, choose 3 different movements you’ll do together. (For example, tapping your head, placing hands on your hips, touching your knees).
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  • Waves, Taps, & Claps

    Your Child Will Learn

    To pay attention to rhyming words in songs

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Choose a simple rhyme or rhyming song to say to your child. 
    2. Wave your hands, tap your child’s body, or clap to emphasize the
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