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Arthur
Arthur's Park
Help Arthur build a new park and beautify Elwood City!
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Abby's Sandbox Search
Literacy-English Language Arts (ELA)
Help Abby find the objects hidden in the sand!
Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum
Xavier Story Creator
Literacy-English Language Arts (ELA)
Create stories your own way!
Peg + Cat
The Big Dog Problem
Mathematics,Computational Thinking
Read a storybook with Peg and Cat!
Peg + Cat
The Election Problem
Literacy-English Language Arts (ELA),Mathematics,Social Studies,Computational Thinking
The chickens vote for someone to watch them while the farmer is away!
Sesame Street
Storybook Builder
Literacy-English Language Arts (ELA),Social & Emotional Growth
Create stories with Elmo, Abby Cadabby, and Cookie Monster!
Sesame Street
Letter Dance Party
Literacy-English Language Arts (ELA)
In this game, your child can practice letter recognition and dance with Big Bird and Snuffy.
Plum Landing
Can You Dig It?
Science
Dig underground to find food, but watch out for predators!
Martha Speaks
A Tale of Two Soup Cans
Literacy-English Language Arts (ELA)
True Stories, science/environment
Martha Speaks
Getting To The Game
Literacy-English Language Arts (ELA)
One of the Martha True Stories Texts.
Martha Speaks
Operation Ice Cream
Literacy-English Language Arts (ELA)
One of the Martha True Stories texts.
Martha Speaks
How to be an Inventor
Literacy-English Language Arts (ELA)
One of the Martha True Stories texts
Martha Speaks
Super Inventions
Literacy-English Language Arts (ELA)
One of the Martha True Stories texts.
Martha Speaks
How Do You Measure Up?
Literacy-English Language Arts (ELA),Mathematics
Read about measurement with Martha!
Martha Speaks
Planning an Elephant's Party
Literacy-English Language Arts (ELA),Mathematics
one of the Martha True Stories texts
WordGirl
Comic Book
Literacy-English Language Arts (ELA)
WordGirl Interactive Comic Book Activity
WordGirl
Storybook Adventure
Literacy-English Language Arts (ELA)
html5 choose your own adventure book
Clifford the Big Red Dog
Adventure Stories
Literacy-English Language Arts (ELA)
Create stories with Clifford!
Curious George
Hide and Seek
Mathematics
Look and find numbers game
Molly of Denali
Explore With Molly
Literacy-English Language Arts (ELA),Social Studies,The Arts
Explore Molly's town, play games, and help her neighbors pick blueberries, find agate stones, and make syrup!
Molly of Denali
Fish Camp
Literacy-English Language Arts (ELA),Social Studies
Fish for salmon with fishing rods and wheels to feed Molly's friends and sled dogs!
Molly of Denali
Beading Art
Literacy-English Language Arts (ELA),Social Studies,The Arts
Create beaded designs with Molly using step-by-step instructions or create your own designs.
Molly of Denali
Denali Trading Post
Literacy-English Language Arts (ELA),Mathematics,Social Studies,Executive Function Skills
Help run the Trading Post with Molly and Suki! Fill customer orders and restock shelves.
Molly of Denali
Sled Dog Dash
Literacy-English Language Arts (ELA),Social Studies
Go on a sledding adventure! Help Molly care for the sled dogs and make deliveries.
Molly of Denali
Veggiezilla!
Literacy-English Language Arts (ELA),Science,Mathematics
Grow giant vegetables with Molly and Trini for the Alaska State Fair!
Molly of Denali
Alaskan Adventure
Literacy-English Language Arts (ELA),Science
Explore the Alaskan wilderness with Molly, her mom, and Nina. Take photos of amazing animals and record what you find in your notebook.
Super Why!
Wonder Red’s Rhyme Racer
Roller skate and rhyme with Wonder Red.
Super Why!
Alpha Pig's Paint By Letter
Literacy-English Language Arts (ELA)
alpha pig letter and painting game
Super Why!
Super Why! Saves the Day
Literacy-English Language Arts (ELA)
Use your spelling knowledge to help Super Why finish the story!
Super Why!
Storybook Creator
Literacy-English Language Arts (ELA)
super why reading storybook creator
Super Why!
Princess Presto's Spectacular Spelling Play
Literacy-English Language Arts (ELA)
Help Princess Presto put on a spelling play filled with letters!
Molly of Denali
Molly’s Winter Kitchen
Literacy-English Language Arts (ELA),Science,Social Studies
Help Molly and her mom prepare traditional foods to last all winter!
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Elinor Wonders Why
Elinor Soup's Up
Pick vegetables & make your own soup with Elinor!
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Nature Cat
Fine Feathered Feast
Help Nature Cat feed the birds in the forest.
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Sesame Street
Sesame Street Super Salad Diner
Keep your customers happy in this restaurant game!
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Sesame Street
Cookie Monster's Foodie Truck
Find out where different foods come from to make apple pies, tacos, and more with Cookie Monster and Gonger!
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Ready Jet Go!
Food Farmer
Grow giant vegetables on Earth, Moon and Mars.
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Ready Jet Go!
Cooking School
Unlock all the recipes by designing kitchen contraptions!
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Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum
Xavier Story Creator
Create stories your own way!
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Pinkalicious and Peterrific
Pinka-Perfect Band
Create an instrument then play music with Pinkalicious and her friends!
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Pinkalicious and Peterrific
Pinkcredible Story Maker
Celebrate fall & create new Pinkalicious stories!
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Pinkalicious and Peterrific
Pinkalicious Dance Game
It's time to dance! Learn some new Pinka moves with Pinkalicious or play freeze dance with Peterrific.
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Pinkalicious and Peterrific
Pinkamagine Fashion
Design and decorate clothes for Pinkalicious & friends!
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Pinkalicious and Peterrific
Pinkatastic Stickers
Draw your own stickers to create Pinkatastic scenes!
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Sesame Street
Sesame Monster at the End of This Game
There is a monster at the end of this game and your furry and adorable pal Grover will do everything he can to stop you from playing!
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Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum
Xavier Story Creator
Create stories your own way!
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Pinkalicious and Peterrific
Pinkcredible Story Maker
Celebrate fall & create new Pinkalicious stories!
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Peg + Cat
The Big Dog Problem
Read a storybook with Peg and Cat!
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Peg + Cat
The Election Problem
The chickens vote for someone to watch them while the farmer is away!
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Peg + Cat
The Perfect Ten Problem
Read a storybook with Peg and Cat!
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Sesame Street
Grover's Winter Games
Go skiing, snow boarding and ice skating with Grover!
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Sesame Street
Oscar's Rotten Ride
Help Oscar collect all the rotten trash!
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Sesame Street
The Cookie Games
Compete in ring spin, hurdles, and archery with Cookie Monster!
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Dinosaur Train
Dino Dive
Dive in with the dinosaurs!
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Dinosaur Train
Roarin Relay
Race with the dinosaurs!
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Dinosaur Train
Bridge Builder
Help build bridges so the dinosaurs can get around Troodon Town.
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The Reading Machine: Reading Games
Looking for ways to keep kids excited about reading? The Reading Machine provides links to 36 online games to help you teach and reinforce important reading skills, and to help your students practice and enhance their skills. The games make great "reward time" activities too.
Word Finder
Reading Skills: letters, spelling (Grade 1-3)
ABC Bingo
Reading Skills: letters, spelling (Grade K-1)
Alphabet Action
Reading Skills: letters, spelling (Grade K-1)
ABC Finder
Reading Skills: letters, spelling (Grade 1-2)
Missing Letter / Busy Letter
Reading Skills: letters, spelling (Grade 1-3)
Word Scramble
Reading Skills: vocabulary, spelling (Grade 3-6)
Guess-a-Word
Reading Skills: vocabulary, spelling(Grade 1-5)
Spanish Sentence Scramble
Reading Skills: vocabulary, spelling, Spanish (Grade 6-8)
ABC Flash Cards
Reading Skills: ABCs, letters (Grade K-2)
ABCs Spanish
Reading Skills: ABCs, letters, Spanish (Grade 1-6)
Alton-Ra: The Lost Statue
Reading Skills: spelling, using suffixes and prefixes, sentence structure (Grades 3-6)
The Best Trampolini Game
Reading Skills: understanding suffixes (Grades K-2)
Sink It 'n' Solve It
Reading Skills: spelling, vocabulary (Grades 3-6)
Fun City
Reading Skills: spelling (Grades 1-3)
Synonym Toast
Reading Skills: vocabulary, synonyms (Grades 3-12)
Wizards and Pigs Poetry Pickle
Reading Skills: identifying rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration (Grades 3-6)
Synonym Sam's Lab
Reading Skills: synonyms(Grades 2-4)
The Grammar Gorillas
Reading Skills: parts of speech (Grades 2-8)
Punctuation Paintball
Reading Skills: punctuation, capitalization (Grades 1-8)
Gator's Smash 'Em
Reading Skills: spelling (Grades 2-6)
I Spy City
Reading Skills: vocabulary (Grades K-4)
Chicken Stacker
Reading Skills: short vowel sounds (Grades K-2)
Upper and Lower Case Letter Matching
Reading Skills: upper and lower case letters (Grades preK-1)
Spell Check
Reading Skills: spelling (Grades 1-12)
Flood
Reading Skills: vocabulary, classification (Grades K-3)
Letter Matching
Reading Skills: spelling, vowels (Grades K-2)
Word Confusion
Reading Skills: vocabulary, homophones (Grades 3-12)
Name That Play
Reading Skills: comprehension, recall (Grades 10-12)
Fuzzy Lion Ears
Reading Skills: letters, vocabulary, phonics (Grades preK-1)
I Spy BINGO
Reading Skills: vocabulary, comprehension (Grades K-3)
2Bee or Nottoobee
Reading Skills: verbs, present tense, past tense (Grades 1-4)
Dress Up Olivia
Reading Skills: reading (Grades K-2)
Super Readers Challenge
Reading Skills: letters, vocabulary, spelling, reading (Grades preK-2)
Supermarket Spree
Reading Skills: vocabulary, languages (Grades K-6)
The Plural Girls
Reading Skills: spelling, plurals (Grades 2-12)
Tina's World: Real or Make Believe?
Reading Skills: real and make believe (Grades K-1)
Hugo Cabret: Write Your Own Word and Picture Stories
Reading Skills: writing, storytelling (Grades 3-8)
Dogs Letter Pit
Reading Skills: letters, phonics, vocabulary (Grades preK-1)
Anagram Sleuth
Reading Skills: anagrams, comprehension (Grades 4-8)
Rooting Out Words
Reading Skills: vocabulary, root words, prefixes, suffixes (Grades 3-8)
The Effective Detective
Reading Skills: reading, comprehension, problem solving (Grades 2-5)
Seussville Story Maker
Reading Skills: reading, writing, storytelling (Grades K-4)
Charlotte's Web: Make-Your-Own Comics
Reading Skills: writing, storytelling (Grades 3-6)
Hedgie's Alphabet
Reading Skills: vocabulary (Grades K-2)
SpellaRoo
Reading Skills: spelling (Grades 1-6)
Updated 6/10/2013
5 simple games that will teach your child to read with pleasure
“I don't know what to do! My child doesn't want to learn to read!" many mothers complain.
Of course he doesn't! No one will be happy if they are forced to do something boring day after day: “Look, this is the letter “A”. Repeat! Ah-ah-ah-ah! And this is the letter "B". What letter is this?..” As a result, everyone is unhappy: the child who is waiting for all this to end, and the mother who laments, well, why doesn’t anything work out as it should! But in order to teach a child to read with pleasure, you need to show that this process can be creative, very exciting and fun. How to do it? Says the creative mother of two daughters, blogger Natalia Igonina.
Natalia Igonina and her daughters Veronika and Valeria
The life of a small child is an amazing country full of discoveries and magic. In order not to ruin his desire to explore the world and learn something new, try to turn even the most boring activity into an exciting game. Those that I offer will not require any expensive materials and a lot of time. All you need is a creative mood and a desire to share your knowledge with a child.
Try to do it with love.
Reading in capital letters
To make it interesting for your child to get acquainted with new letters, make a stencil for tactile-visual memorization together with him. On a sheet of A4 paper, draw a large letter that you are going to study. There are several options for how to play with such a stencil: you can lay out the surface of the letter with pebbles, shells, candies; paint the letter with a brush or fingers; make plasticine patches; roll massage balls along the contour of the letter or draw it on colored sand or semolina. Start learning to read by getting to know the vowels, and then enter one consonant letter at a time and substitute it with the vowels to form the syllables "AM", "EM", "OH", "BA", "BE", "BI" and so on . Take your time, spend one day studying one letter.
Making our own reading simulator
So, we learned all the letters, learned how to add syllables from them. Now let's show the child how to read by syllables.
To do this, we need to make a compact simulator. It is not only mobile, but also universal, because with its help you can work out both open syllables (“MA”, “BA”) and closed ones (“AM”, “Hedgehog”). Take transparent caps from sour cream: 5 caps for consonants and 3 caps for vowels. There are 4 letters on each cover. Give the child the "consonant" and "vowel" parts of the simulator and show what happens if you combine them.
Reading by caps
When the child has mastered syllabic reading, offer him to read short words consisting of three letters. To make such activities interesting, make homemade cards that will help keep your child’s interest for a long time. On a piece of paper, write the syllables "KO", "RA", "VO", "LA", "LE", as well as letter combinations with "windows", for example, Z_L, K_T, R_T, D_M. We will also need white lids from gouache or plastic bottles. Write the letters A, O, Y, K, L, W, Z, T on them with a permanent marker. Invite the child to substitute the caps for the syllables on a piece of paper and fill in the empty “windows” with them.
What words did he get?
Learn to read quickly
To learn how to read fluently, you can play two exciting games that your child will definitely like.
Half word
Cut some cards out of paper. On each of them write words of different lengths and read them together with your child. Now cut each word in half and shuffle all the halves. Ask the child to take any half of the card and understand what the word is written on it. When the child understands the algorithm, feel free to switch to books. Take a ruler or paper strip and cover half of the word or sentence in the text with it. Invite them to read "at the top" of the words, and then at the bottom halves of the sentences. It is very exciting!
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Lost Letters
Take a paper strip and cover the end of the words in the book with it and ask the child to read them in full. When the baby has mastered this exercise, you can complicate the task a little and close the letters in the middle of the word.
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Learning to read attentively
If you have old newspapers or magazines, completed developmental manuals and drafts, then you can offer children such a mindfulness game. Name any letter of the alphabet and ask the child to find and color (cross out, circle, underline) it in the text. Further, the task can be complicated, for example, cross out each letter "A" and circle each letter "R". Such a game not only helps to remember the spelling of all the letters of the alphabet, but also develops attention, concentration and perseverance. ⠀
I hope that these games will help turn any activity into an exciting game that the child will want to return to again and again, inventing something new!
Read also:
10 secrets of parents whose children love to read
6 reasons why our children do not like to read
Video: personal archive of Natalia Igonina
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methods of teaching reading to the first grade
When to teach a child to read
There are early development studios in which children are taught to read from the first years of life.
However, pediatricians do not recommend rushing and advise starting learning to read no earlier than 4 years old, best of all - at 5–6. By this age, most children already distinguish sounds well, can correctly compose sentences and pronounce words. Therefore, most often parents think about how to teach their child to read, already on the eve of school.
How to know if your child is ready to learn to read
Before you start teaching your child to read, you need to make sure that the child is ready and wants to learn. To do this, try to answer the following questions:
- Does the child know the concepts of “right-left”, “big-small”, “inside-outside”?
- Can he generalize objects according to these characteristics?
- Can he distinguish between similar and dissimilar forms?
- Is he able to remember and execute at least three instructions?
- Does he construct phrases correctly?
- Does he pronounce words clearly?
- Can he retell a story heard or happened to him?
- Can he formulate his feelings and impressions?
- Can you predict the ending of a simple story?
- Does he manage to participate in the dialogue?
- Can he listen without interrupting?
- Can he rhyme words?
- Do the letters attract his attention?
- Does the child have a desire to independently examine the book?
- Does he like being read aloud to him?
If you answered “yes” to these questions, your child is ready and will soon learn to read correctly.
Methods for teaching reading
Most of the methods involve learning while playing so that the child is not bored and learns knowledge better.
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Zaitsev's Cubes
For more than twenty years, these cubes have been introducing children to letters and teaching how to compose words and syllables. They allow you to understand how vowels and consonants, deaf and voiced sounds differ. There are 52 cubes in total, each of which depicts warehouses (combinations of a consonant and a vowel). The cubes vary in color and size, the large ones depict hard warehouses, while the small ones are soft. During classes, parents are encouraged to pronounce or sing warehouses so that the child remembers them better.
K Zaitsev's ubikiSource: moya-lyalyas.ru
Vyacheslav Voskobovich's "towers" and "folds"
windows. You can put cubes in them to make syllables. And from several towers you can make a word.
Voskobovich's "towers"Source: catalog-chess.
ru Skladushki is a book with pictures, educational rhymes and songs. Parents sing them and in parallel show the warehouses in the pictures. The author of the methodology claims that a child of six years old can be taught to read in a month using "folds".
A page from V. Voskobovich's "folds"
Doman's cards
This method of teaching a child to read is based on memorizing words in their entirety, from simple to more complex. First, the child masters the first 15 cards, which the parent shows him for 1-2 seconds and pronounces the words on them. Then the child tries to memorize phrases. This technique helps not only to learn more words, but also develops memory well in general.
Doman cardsSource: friendly-life.ru/kartochki-domana-dlya-samyh-malenkih
Maria Montessori's method of teaching reading
The essence of the Montessori method is that the child is first asked to feel the spelling of a letter, and then pronounce it.
For this, didactic materials are used - cardboard plates with pasted letters, the outline of which the child traces with his finger, naming the sound. After studying consonants and vowels, you can move on to words and phrases. The Montessori method not only helps to learn to read, but also develops fine motor skills, logic, and the ability to analyze.
Source: hendmeid.guru
Olga Soboleva's technique
The author of this technique believes that you need to start learning not from the abstract alphabet, but immediately in practice - by analyzing simple texts. The Soboleva program allows you to teach a child to read from the age of five - at this age, children are already able to keep their attention on a line of text. Different approaches are offered depending on how it is easier for a child to perceive the world - by eye, by ear or by touch. In addition to reading skills, the technique develops interest in creativity, imagination, attention and memory.
How to teach a child to read by syllables
Teaching a child to read by syllables should be done in stages. First, explain to him that sounds are vowels and consonants, deaf and voiced. Say them with the child - he must understand how they differ. Letters and sounds can be learned while walking: draw your child's attention to the letters on signs and announcements, and soon he will learn to recognize them.
When the child has mastered the letters and sounds, start teaching him to read simple words - "mom", "dad". Then move on to more complex ones - “grandmother”, “dog”, “apartment”. Show your child that syllables can be sung.
Syllabary for learning to read
Next, move on to word formation. You can cut cards with syllables and invite the child to make words out of them. When he gets comfortable, move on to reading short texts. It is better to start with two or three phrases, and a little later switch to texts of five to ten sentences.
To enroll in Foxford Online Elementary School, a child must have at least basic reading, numeracy and writing skills. To check the readiness of the child for school, we offer to pass a small test that does not require special preparation.
Source: freepik.com
Exercises for learning to read
There are many exercises on the Internet that help children learn to read, you can print them out and start learning right away. Start with exercises that teach you to recognize letters and tell correct spellings from incorrect spellings.
From O. Zhukova's manual “Learning to read. Simple Exercises.Source: mishka-knizhka.ru
When the child gets used to the letters, move on to the exercises for syllables. For example, like this:
Geometric prompt exercise. For greater clarity, blocks with words can be cut out.
Similar exercises not only teach reading, but also develop logical thinking well:
Gradually move on to exercises where you need not only to read correctly, but also to write words:
One of the most difficult and entertaining exercises is fillords: you need to find and cross out the words on the field of letters.
Games for learning to read
With the help of cubes or cards with letters and syllables, you can play different educational games with your child. Let's take a few examples.
Garages
Take a word of 3-4 syllables and place cards with them on the floor in random order. Explain to the child how these syllables are read. These will be garages. Give the child different toys and offer to send them to the garage as you wish: for example, the car goes to the TA garage, the bear goes to the RA garage, the ball rolls to the KE garage, and so on. Make sure your child is positioning the toys correctly. At the end of the game, invite the child to make a word from garage syllables. Perhaps not the first time, but he will get a "ROCKET". Gradually introduce new syllables into the game.
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Store
Lay out images of various goods on the table - this is a store, and you are a seller.
Give your child a stack of cards with syllables - they will function as money. The child needs to buy all the items in the store, but each item is only sold for the syllable it starts with. For example, fish can only be bought for the syllable "RY", milk - for the syllable "MO", and so on. Give your child a few extra cards to make the task more difficult. When he gets used to it, change the conditions of the game: for example, sell goods not for the first, but for the last syllables. The game is both simple and complex: it will allow the child to understand that words are not always spelled the way they are pronounced. After all, a cow cannot be bought for the syllable "KA", for example.
Lotto
Game for several people. Give the children several cards with syllables. Take out the cubes with syllables one by one from the box and announce them. Whoever has a card with such a syllable - he takes it. The first person to complete all the cards wins. During the game, children will accurately remember the syllables that they had on their hands.
Summary
Finally, a few more tips on how to teach a child to read:
- Teaching children to read is better to start with memorizing letters. It is important that the child can recognize and name them without hesitation.
- In the early stages, pronounce the consonants as they are read in words: not [em], [el], [de], but [m], [l], [d] - this way it will be easier for the child to find his bearings.
- Sculpt letters from plasticine, draw and color, buy an alphabet with voice acting - use all the channels of the child's perception.
- Gradually join the letters into syllables and then into words. Play rearranging letters and syllables, let the child experiment.
- Teach your child rhymes about the letters of the alphabet, look at the primer, use cards with letters and pictures. Thanks to the illustrations, the child will be able to memorize the symbols faster.
- Distribute the load: fifteen minutes a day is better than an hour twice a week.
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