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Take careful note of the particular areas of difficulty your
child has, and build a series of games and activities that
may help to strenghthen those areas. However, remember that
the child often see home as the one place they can escape
literacy work, so it is important to make activities as much
fun as possible.
1. Nursery rhymes - try reciting them,
and find games that can be used with them. Extend the game
to finding other rhyming words.
2. Poetry - Read poetry to children,
especially amusing or nonsense poems, and make up your own
with them.
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3. Physical games - physical skills such as throwing,
catching, kicking balls, skipping, jumping and balancing.
For example Simon Says is a game which starts with very simple
instructions, eg: “Simon says, clap your hands.”
and gradually make it more difficult, eg: “Simon says,
put your left hand behind your right knee.”
4. Kinaesthetic awareness - feeling
letter shapes using wooden and plastic letters, wet or dry
sand, or make letters out of plasticine or modelling clay.
5. Try variations on “I Spy”
eg: “I spy with my little eye something beginning with
the sound (b).”, “... with the same sound as ball.”,
“... with the letter B.” “...that rhymes with
bat.” “ending with the sound (b).”
6. Auditory sequence - build ever increasing
lists. For example “My grandmother went to market and
she bought an apple, a pound of potatoes, a jar of honey ......”
building up each time. Try different categories, or different
letters or random items.
7. Dominoes - Dominoes require little
setting up, and provide simple help with numbers, as well
as visual sequencing. They are also available in other forms,
using pictures and patterns for the child to match up for
some variety.
8. Objects on a tray - Provide a tray
of objects for the child to look at, then: (a) After a few
seconds cover the tray and ask the child to name all the objects
he saw, or (b) Ask the child to close his eyes. Remove one
or two objects from the tray. Ask the child to open his eyes
and say which objects he thinks were removed.
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