LITERACY RESOURCES
Making Reading a part of your family time!
Family time is so important...Why not make reading part of this valuable time with your kids? Here are some tips for integrating reading into your daily family activities:
Family time is so important...Why not make reading part of this valuable time with your kids? Here are some tips for integrating reading into your daily family activities:
- Read bedtime stories
- Play a board game
- Visit your local library
- read a recipe and cook something yummy together
- Create a comfy reading space in your home
- Put your child in charge of reading the grocery list at the store
- Use the five finger rule. Open the book to any page and ask your child to read. Put up a finger every time your child does not know a word. If you have put up more than five fingers before the end of the page, this book is too hard for your child.
- Choose books that match your child's likes and interests.
- Keep plenty of reading materials in your home such as books, magazines, newspapers, and comic books. Children enjoy having a variety of reading materials.
15-20 minutes is plenty for a beginning reader!
How to read with a beginning reader:
- Encourage your child to use his/her finger to point to each word.
- Read a sentence and have your child repeat it.
- Take turns reading a sentence each or a page each
- Talk about the story as you read it. What do you think will happen next? What does this story remind you of? How do you think this character feels?
- Don't be afraid to read the same book again! Repeated reading helps build reading fluency!
- Start the book by making predictions. What do you think will happen in the story?
- Ask questions and make comments during the reading process.
- After reading a book, have your child tell you the events from the story in the correct order.
- What was the problem in the story?
- How did the character fell when...?
- Encourage your child to make connections. Does this story remind you of another book you read, an event in your life, or a movie?
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mATH rESOURCES
I know that you all have full schedules, and it can be difficult to find time for that extra focus we want to have on math. You can help to develop math skills no matter what your child's age by exploring the math in the world around them. First graders are developing a more complex understanding of numbers.
Give your child plenty of opportunities to count and measure
Give your child plenty of opportunities to count and measure
- Read a recipe and have your child measure the amounts of ingredients
- Use a calendar, count by 7's and then 1's to find the number of days until and upcoming event
- Plan a meal together, then make a shopping list for items that fit your budget
- If you bring vegetables home from the store, have your child count them, counting on from the number you already have
- Find creative ways to measure: how many paper clips ling is this sheet of paper?
- Pick a number between 1-20 (or between any 2 numbers up to 100). Have your child guess the number, then you tell if your number was greater than or less than his/her guess. Have them revise their guess until he/she reaches the right number. Then reverse roles.
- Count 8 pennies, then hide 4. Ask "How many are hidden?"
- Read weather charts, movie schedules, and other common numerical information you find in the news.
- When you're doing the laundry, have your child match all the pairs of socks. How many socks are there? How many pairs?
- Compare and organize tools, dishes, or other objects based on size, color or weight.
- Dice, cards, and board games can help your child learn addition combinations
- Dominoes help practice counting by 5's
- The card game "War" helps kids recognize which number is greater and which is less
- Yahtzee
- Mancala
- Checkers and Chinese checkers
- Any game that includes counting board steps, such as Chutes and Ladders