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Pre-Reading Games

Here are some Pre-Reading games you can play with your child to help give them a strong foundation for reading success.

 

Print the alphabet flash cards and post a few around the room. Ask the child to “run to muh [m]” or “run to tuh [t]”

Put some sticky dots on the back of the alphabet flash cards and have the child post them on things in the room that start with that sound

Play Alphabet Sounds Lotto

Print the alphabet flash cards provided with Brain-e-Games and print 8 cards for each vowel, mix them up and play “go fish” remembering to ask for the letter sounds and not the names.

Print the alphabet flash cards provided with Brain-e-Games and print 2 cards for each vowel, lay them face-down and take turns flipping them up to find a match. If you can find a match and say the sound, you keep the pair.

Print the alphabet flash cards provided with Brain-e-Games, place some on the floor and ask your child to jump/hop to different letter sounds: 'Jump to 'muh' [m]

Write a letter on each other’s back and guess which it is.

Use magnetic letters and a magnet wand to 'fish' for letters and match them to the letters on a Lotto Board. [See 'My First Three Letter Words' & 'My First Alphabet Lotto' in reading games]

Get a shallow baking pan and put some flour in it. Let your child trace patterns & shapes with their fingers.

Print an Alphabet Book. Help your child to cut out magazine pictures and stick them onto the page which begins with the linitial letter sound of the picture.

See How to Teach the Alphabet


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