Ideas to try at home

• Pick out an item in the room and have your child say the beginning, middle or final sound of that item

• If you are driving or doing any other daily activity with your child, you can think of words for your child to rhyme

• Read stories to and with your child

• Have your child go on a treasure hunt and find an item that starts with a certain sound

High Frequency words:

    •Make flashcards with the high frequency words and practice these words

    •Create sentences with high frequency words, cut apart and have child put the sentence back together

    •Look for high frequency words in newspapers, magazines and books

    •Play all kinds of games with the high frequency words such as bingo, memory and go fish

    •Have child write high frequency words with markers, crayons and chalk

How to do a one minute read:

• Time your child reading an unfamiliar story or passage for one minute

• Count the total number of words read and subtract the number of errors from it
  This will give the words read per minute.

• Go over words missed in the story and practice reading the story before the second timed reading

• Do at least two timed readings of the story

• Make sure to keep track of how your child does by recording the results on a graph or a piece of paper

• Show your child how much they improved from the first time they read the story