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These following
activities help strengthen your child’s letter sound recognition skills, in
turn helping them to become a better reader in the future. Listening for and
saying sounds will help your child to realize that all words are made up of
a collection of sounds. This also gets them ready to match those particular
sounds to the written letters, an important first step in learning to read.
The easiest place to begin learning about letter sounds is with the initial
sound for words. Grouping together words with the same beginning sound
is called alliteration.
The following are just a
few of the alliteration activities that you can use to help your child
develop this skill:
1. Have your child
recite words that begin with one particular letter. A good example would be
to recite words that begin with the same first letter of their first name.
So, if your child’s name were Colby, then Colby would recite words such as,
“car, cat, cabin, cottage, cards, cart.” You get the picture. You would
them have them recite words that begin with other letters that they are
already familiar with, continuing this learning process. You could go
through using the names of everyone in the family.
2. A similar activity
that will help your child is to come up with a silly phrase, all with words
starting with the same letter such as with the letter “t”, “tiny tots tiptoe
to the top”. Challenge your child to come up with the longest phrase of same
first letter words that they can think of, making this a challenge can
encourage them to want to do more, in turn, learning more.
3. Another fun activity
would be to name animals using the same first letter of their word, such as
Chrissy the Cow, Zoey the Zebra, Alphie the Anteater. You can do this on
dozens of different types of animals, helping your child learn a valuable
skill. Making this into a game works well too, ask your child should the
horse be named, “Holly or Molly” based upon the fact that he is to choose
the name that begins with the same first letter of horse. |
