Literacy

Learning to Spell

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We start with simple words; “it” “is” “at”.

Putting a consonant in front of those small words is easy and children get so excited when they see they have learned a new word. When they can put 3-5 consonants in front of one small word and make multiple words; you better believe the excitement multiples as well.

There are so many ways to introduce words to young ones. This is but one small step. Sounding out the beginning letter sound to make the correct word, this helps with letter recognition, and sight words.

When you begin; go over each consonant with your child; sounding out each one. Mistakes are okay. Smile, give a hug of encouragement and move on to the next one.

 

Let’s Learn with Cars!

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Cars make everything fun! So why not incorporate cars and letters!

This one takes some time; but it’s worth it. Make a car for every letter of the alphabet (using the upper case letters).  Use sentence strips that are white and black and look like a street; cut into smaller pieces and write a lower case letter on each piece. The object here is to match the car with the road that has the matching letter.

Don’t be upset if they want to drive around the block (table) to get to the letter first, it’s all part of the play in learning. You can set the road up into a long stretch, curves, hills; whatever makes it fun for your young one. Or just keep them in separate pieces.

I used the template below, but I left out the back window so that I could have room for the letters. I used letter templates that I purchased online from another blog, so I cannot share those. You can use stickers or just draw the letters on the cars.

Again, I laminate everything!