Fun with Phonics

Lets get on with other phonics activities.....check previous post for 1-3 

4. For another movement activity, put tape on the floor, with a letter on each piece of tape.

Tell your child to start with their feet on a certain letter (e.g., start on letter A), then tell them to jump to different letters, using the letter sounds. For example, “Jump to the letter that makes the sound (insert letter sound).”

As your child becomes more independent with his letter sounds, you can make the letters spell actual words. For the word cat, have three pieces of tape, C, A, T. Tell your child to start at the C, then jump to the next letter in Cat, and then the last letter. To make it more challenging, have your child spell the word backwards, by starting with the last letter and jumping in order until they get to the first letter.

Mix up the game with upper and lower case letters. The example above has three letters, but you can use as many pieces of tape and letters as you want. Start out with a few and add more if your child is making good progress.

5. Make a work sheet, using words and pictures with your child’s favourite characters, foods, animals, etc. 

You can draw the work sheets by hand or use tables in Microsoft Word.  For a three-letter word, make a table with five columns and one row. Put the picture of the word in the first box of the table (you can draw in the pictures or copy and paste them from Google Images). Put the letters in the other boxes, but leave one letter out. Have your child fill in the missing letter. Here is an example of the work sheet: