Reading/English Language Arts Links
Please use the following websites! They also include informational topics around Science and Social Science!
RAZ Kids : www.kidsa-z.com
Starfall : http://www.starfall.com
Story Online: https://www.storylineonline.net/ (listen to celebrities read books)
Scholastic: https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome/grades-prek-k.html
PBS Kids: https://pbskids.org/
Time For Kids: https://www.timeforkids.com
National Geographic Kids: https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
Education.com Rhyming Games: (You can register for free and access these games) https://www.education.com/games/hearing-rhymes/
Videos
Letter Names/Sounds Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BELlZKpi1Zs
Alphablocks
(Just type in alphablocks on youtube. There a ton of videos that are engaging)
Rhymes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSPmGPIyykU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSPmGPIyykU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHroOYO1iOo
Syllables
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S7DY2lgJlU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlBc703kYMg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psUPYR235O8
Blends/Digraphs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCCFqWV8S7E (What is a Blend?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQgJnpE7IL8 (R Blends)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ1Uu2MRXTY (L Blends)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK8_Tvu6bJk (Digraphs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFQ2g_AZW4c (Digraphs)
Magic E Words
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZhl6YcrxZQ (The Magic E Song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3oA4wfUBak
Other Activities
- Continue to practice letter names and sounds. If you have old magazines, have your child cut out pictures and make his/her own alphabet book
- Please continue to read to your child each day. Some questions to ask:
- Who are the characters?
- What is the setting?
- What happened in the beginning, middle and end?
- What is the problem in the story?
- What is the solution in the story?
- What does the author do?
- What does the illustrator do?
- Is this book fiction or nonfiction? If this is a nonfiction book, have your child explain the main idea(what the book is mostly about) and some details that help support what the book is mostly about.
- Have your child keep a little journal. Your child can draw and write about things that he/she did that day or draw and write about their favorite part of a story you read to him/her.
- Please keep practicing all decodable readers that been have sent home this year.
- Keep coloring books in your home! Have your child continue to color in one direction and in the lines.