In Kindergarten there are key skills children develop that can help with the process of reading. Much of this occurs through interaction like talking, having fun with words, reading stories together, playing letter games, and learning letter sounds.
Over-learn the alphabet
Sight words (also called Star words) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWtMmRZDY-4
Blending consonant - vowel - consonant (CVC) words https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDVAhDyHZaA
Word families https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaSRUZVWRSg
Over-learn the alphabet
- Practice writing your child's first and last name
- Practice writing the uppercase and lowercase letters with correct letter formation. Developmentally writing "b" for "d" or "p" for "q" is still acceptable, but it is time to work practicing the correct direction.
- Practice identifying which letters are vowels and which letters are consonants. Know both the long and the short sound for vowels.
- Put magnetic letters in order and then say letters of the of the alphabet by pointing to each one so that the letter name matches what is being said - LMNO is not one letter. Singing the ABC song to know the alphabet should no longer be needed.
- Sing the alphabet song to a different common tune like "Mary had a Little Lamb."
- Time students to see how many random letters they can name correctly in one minute
- Time students to see how many random sounds they can name correctly in one minute
- Phonological Development
Phonology is a fancy word for understanding the sound structures in words. Types of activities that are fun and easy to do include: - Rhyming fun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4zsLZzU5xE
- Reading nursery rhymes
- Read Rhyming Books for example Dr. Seuss books
- Counting words in sentences that are spoken
- Clap syllables in words www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlBc703kYMg (especially big words!)
- Onset rime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyRwuV0SPzA
- Add, delete, or change the sounds at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of the word one at a time to create a new word.
- Sound blending https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIBjAWkPzNA
- Letter sound correspondence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyKdUpJQBTY
- Trying singing the ABC song with just sounds of the letters
- Phoneme segmenting
Sight words (also called Star words) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWtMmRZDY-4
Blending consonant - vowel - consonant (CVC) words https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDVAhDyHZaA
Word families https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaSRUZVWRSg