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Literacy Rich Home

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ny lottery I wanted to provide just a few snapshots to show the ways that I try to provide a literacy rich environment at home.  This is just one way to “marinate” my kids in literacy at an early age. Label everything. The toilet, the refrigerator, the pantry, etc.  You can use sentence strips or index cards.  I get wise…
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More -at Word Family Activities

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california lottery Here are a few more things ALuv and I did with the -at Word Family.  These were not done all in one day; rather stretched out over a week. Timed Sorts. ALuv re-matched the words and pictures to review.  He matched them again as I timed him.  The third time, I asked him if he could do it…
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Fishing for Letters

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I rotate out toys on a weekly basis in our playroom.  It’s an inexpensive way of keeping things fresh.  I got the idea here.  My original idea was that I would rotate things out as a surprise–do it while they were sleeping, but the boys found my “stash” that I thought I had hidden really well.  Now they help me…
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-at Family: 2nd day

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First part of lesson: Resort/rematch -at words and pictures (5-7 minutes) On the 2nd day of working on our -at family, ALuv matched the words and pictures with minimal support from me.  I asked him again how he knew when a word and picture matched, helping him to think again about his strategy.  His answer was usually, “Because this picture…
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Time to Start Word Families!

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Okay, so what do you do if your child knows his letters and most letter sounds?  Word families! A Word Family is a set of words that have the same ending chunk in them like the at family: cat, sat, rat, fat, etc.  Keep it simple at first and only add one letter to the front of –at, so words…
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