Reading games for teaching 3

Continue with my reading games for teaching 3 ----- Building skills with rhymes, songs, and alliteration

Your child is now pretty good at listening to the sounds inside words and can hear beginning and ending sounds. But other listening skills help good reader too.

Rhymes

Besides being great fun, rhymes are really useful because they give us a mental catalogue of like-words that we can refer to when we have to figure out new words. If, for example, the word sly is rattling around your brain, trying to find a place to lodge, you can catalogue it with my, by, sty, and pry. You don't about the cranial files and indexes that are getting the job done, but the mental association is made. You can make sense of sly because you already know my, by, sty, and pry. Teachers understand this, so they make sure that beginning readers spend a lot of time rhyming. It's good to give your child the mental gymnastics of playing with rhyme, so here is a listening game to build up an auditory sweat!

Reading Games to teach reading: Find the Rhyme

Preparation: Talk about rhyme and give a few examples. They can be silly and impossible, just as long as they rhyme ( My kids used to like calling their friend "Tracey, Teacey, silly facey"). Follow these easy steps and use the dialogue in bold if you want to.

1, We are going to play rhyme game. Let's think of some rhyming words. Talk about a few pairs of rhyming words, for instance, cat and hat, pin and win, hot and pot.

2. Let's get really clever. I'm going to say a word that needs to find its rhyming partner. After that, I'll say two more words and you choose the partner.

3. Let's listen to the first one together. Here goes, Lamp. Listen again, Lamp. Which of these next words is the partner? Light, Stamp

4. Help your child get the right answer (Stamp) and move on.

5. Now you can listen for some more partners ( Answers are in bold print):

Sink Pink, Crown

Nest Vest, elephant

List Skunk, fist

Swing Bottle, King

Hand Stand, money

Star Far, equipment

Spell Smell, chimney

Stop Kitten, mop

Smoke Joke, bucket

Skirt Shirt, bear

Skate Late, spoon

Street Sweet, map

Songs ---- one of must have part of reading games

Songs are even more useful than Rhymes. It's so easy to remember a song and everyone enjoys a good warble, including ( and often especially) the tonally challenged. Songs helps your child remember a huge amount of information and they five him lots of opportunity to manipulate and play with letter sounds too. Here is my all time favorite letter song.

Reading Games to teach reading: Abby loves apples song

Preparation: Sing this to the tune of "Skip to my Lou." Remember to talk in letter sounds and make up alliterative verses. Like this:

Abby loves apples a a a

Abby loves apple a a a

Abby loves apple a a a

Skip to my Lou my darling

Bobby plays baseball b b b

Bobby plays baseball b b b

Bobby plays baseball b b b

Skip to my Lou my darling

Colin copies Carol C C C

Dingoes in the dungeon D D D

Eggs in the elevator e e e

Fingers in the fountain f f f

Alliteration

Tigers and teachers dancing on the deck. What fun alliteration is! You have already sung a few alliterative lines and now you get to think up more groups of words and make absurd combinations. In the next game, you ask your child to listen hard for a sound pattern, and then make up alliterative rhymes that follow that pattern.

Reading Games to teach reading: Follow the pattern

Preparation: None. Just have this page in front of you.

I like beans and books, but not cushions.

I like cats and cars, but not dogs,

I like dragons and donuts, but not vegetables.

I like vases and vinegar, but not shoes.

I like shops and shells, but noe lemons,

I like lettuce and lips, but not bags

I like bags and belts, but not windows.

I like water and weddings, but not fingers.

I like fish and fun, but not tents.

I like toys and torpedoes, but not nuts.

I like nets and nights, but not sweaty feet.

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