Letter sound recognition games
50 ABC Letters and Sounds Games • Kids Activities Blog
Today we have a whole bunch of alphabet fun with letter and sounds learning games and activities for toddlers and preschoolers to help you young students prepare to read with fun pre-reading playful learning ideas.
ABC Games & Alphabet Sounds
Many parents have kids that are soon to enter kindergarten for the first time and are wondering what their kids should know before they head out to school on their own.
As a mom who once taught Kindergarten, I always wanted to make sure my kids are well-prepared and ready to begin their school career with a bit of an advantage by knowing their letters and sounds.
Related: Grab our free Kindergarten readiness checklist as a guide
I have seen the value in children knowing their letters early.
That said, I also recognize that kids are kids, and I want to make sure they have time to play – both independently and with me.
Learning Through Alphabet Games
Children acquire knowledge through play, so learning letters at our house is rarely a sit down structured time.
It’s a time of play and games!
The kids have fun and don’t even realize they are learning at the same time. I don’t believe we should leave teaching up to the schools. You get the great honor of being an educator of your child, and you can supplement what is happening at school by engaging your child in enjoyable yet educational ways.
Related: Check out our huge abc letters resource that has letter activities, letter crafts, letter printables and more for every letter of the alphabet!
I hope these resources help you feel equipped to take the reins in your own child’s education.
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Let’s play a hands on letter game!Hands On Letter Games
1. Letter Toss Game
Muffin Tin Learning – Want to make learning fun? This game involving throwing pennies and will keep your kids engaged.
They will barely know that this is actually a lesson.
2. Growing Letters Game
Alphabet Flower Garden – This garden is full of letters and learning opportunities. It is definitely a great way to explore and grow in alphabet knowledge.
3. Unlimited ABC Games for Kids
ABC Mouse – This site gives kids tons of alphabet and phonics practice through interactive games and printables.
4. Matching Letter Game
Magnetic Alphabet Board – This letter matching activity is self-contained and is a tool to get kids to match up letters and help with identification.
5. Touch and Feel the Alphabet Game
Play Dough and Magnet Letters – Letting kids explore using their senses is a great way to learn. Play Dough is a tactile way to watch this happen.
–>Need a Set of Alphabet Magnets? I like this Magnetic Letters Alphabet Fridge Magnets Set that comes in a handy carrying tub.
6. The Great Alphabet Race
Race the Alphabet – Do you have race tracks and a child that loves playing with cars? This activity is for you! If you don’t have your own track, here’s another version.
Preschool Alphabet Games
7. Fishing for Letters
Magnet Letter Fishing – Take your magnet letters and make a simple fishing pole. With a pond full of letters, your kids will have a lot of fun casting their line for another catch.
8. Pirate Vowel Game
Gold Coin Vowel Sound Drop – Your little pirate will have fun learning his or her vowels be playing this game.
9. Letter Stacking Game
ABC Letter Stack Game – Stacking up letters has never been so fun. They get to stack and stack until they fall, which I am sure will become the favorite part.
Related: Use these with our playful preschool homeschool curriculum
10. It Begins With…
Initial Sounds Blackout Game – Want kids to be able to identify the beginning sounds of words? This fun game will help them do exactly that.
–>Need a Wooden Alphabet Set with Flashcards? I really love the cuteness of this Tangame Wooden Magnetic Letters Alphabet Refrigerator Magnet Flash Cards for Preschool Kids that comes in a magnetic tin.
11. Letter Scavenger Hunt
Architecture Letter Scavenger Hunt – Have you seen those photos that find letters in architecture? Your kids get to go on their own letter scavenger hunt with this fun activity.
Let’s play a creative alphabet game!Creative Letter Games for Alphabet Sounds
12. Interactive Alphabet Learning Games
A-Z Letter Learning Activities – This post brings you over 90 activities for each and every letter of the alphabet. What a great resource!
13. Climb the Word Ladder
Word Ladder – Kids get to “climb” to the top of the ladder as they successfully identify letters and sounds. They don’t need to worry if they “fall,” they have the opportunity to try again.
14. Flashlight Alphabet Game
Flashlight Alphabet Game – My kids are obsessed with flashlights. I know my preschooler would love this game!
–>Need Foam Alphabet Letters for Practice? This Gamenote Classroom Magnetic Alphabet Letters Kit comes in a plastic organization case and magnet board and would be great for home too.
15. Make a Letter Game
Letter Formation Activity – Using materials you probably have at home, your kids will have a lot of fun forming their letters.
16. Hungry Hungry Letters Game
Alphabet Monster – This hungry monster will only eat letters if you can say the name or sound of a letter. What a fun craft to make that also turns a great letter learning opportunity.
Let’s play a game that helps us learn letters!ABC Games that Help Kids Learn Letters and Sounds
17. Let’s Host a Reading Hop
Reading Hop – This letter learning game will keep your kids active and hopping all around. If you are looking for a way to take learning outdoors, you have found it.
18. Alphabet I Spy
Alphabet “I Spy” – Take the classic and beloved game of “I Spy” and turn it into an alphabet search activity. Brilliant!
19. Can You Catch the Letters Game?
Runaway Letters Game – Your child gets a chance to grab letters and runaway while you creativity beacon the letter’s return.
This is a great way for moms, dads or teachers to interact with their kids during the educational process.
–>Need a Fun ABC Game? I love this ABC Cookies Game from Goodie Games that is a fun alphabet learning game for toddlers and preschoolers.
20. LEGO Spelling
Lego Spelling – If you add letters to duplex legos, you have a great way to work on sounds and words.
21. Letters Inside of Letters Activity
Making Letters with Letters – Learning letters will be reinforced over and over again as your kids use letters from magazines to create their own larger letters.
Fun Pre-K Learning games for kids!ABC Games for Pre-K
22. Letter Swat Game
Spider Letter Swat – Kids will enjoy learning their letters as they swat away at the flies in this entertaining game.
23. Letter Squirt Game
Squirt the Letter – This is a game I know my son, especially, would love. He loves anything squirt gun and anything water.
Squirting the correct letter is right up his alley.
24. Letter Lacing Activity
Letter Lacing – This letter lacing, quiet bag activity works on fine motor skills while also developing the skills needed to develop in reading.
–>Need Letter Lacing Cards? I like this wooden set from Melissa & Doug that has both animals and letters on the sturdy lacing cards.
25. Alphabet Sounds Race
Letter Sounds Race – Get your kids moving with this letter sounds race. This is a great learning opportunity for your active kids! More alphabet sound learning activities are fun too!
26. Disappearing Letters Game
Disappearing Letters – Kids will learn to love to trace their letters as they see the trick to making them disappear.
Let’s play ABC Learning Games!Alphabet Games for Learning
27. The Game of Bang
Bang – Bang is a letter identification game that will be a lot of fun for the little gamers in your life.
28. Letter Chomp Game
Mr. Shark Alphabet Chomper Game – I love the idea to make a shark out of an envelope in general. Add the learning aspect of having the shark chomp letters, and you have a great game.
29. Letter Tiles Activity
DIY Bananagrams Letter Tiles – Here’s a really smart way to make letter tiles. You can turn them into magnets or play the classic Bananagram game with your creation.
–>Need a Bananagram Game? Here is the original Bananagram game for kids.
30. Make Pretzel Letters
Soft Pretzel Letters – Kids can learn their letters as they have fun making pretzel dough. Through using both the sense of touch and taste, this becomes a fun activity for all.
31. Travel Alphabet Game
Alphabet Words Game – This is a learning game that can be taken anywhere. Keep your kids occupied working on their letters at restaurants, home, car rides and more.
Let’s play letter and sound games!ABC Games for Letters and Sounds
32.
Touchy Feely LettersSensory Bins with Letters – Sometimes the best way to help kids learn is to let them explore. This sensory bin will help kids do just that.
33. Alphabet Seek & Find
Seek-N-Find Alphabet – This letter game is like an eye spy for letters. It involves a plastic tube (easily substituted by a water bottle), and will keep your kids searching for their letters for quite some time.
34. Letter Formation Fun
Tactile Writing – Kids learn to write letters as they use rice and paint to feel their way through the process or writing.
–>Need a Wooden Letter Matching Set? I like this durable Alphabet flash cards and wooden letter puzzle set from LiKee Alphabet.
35. Homemade Domino Letter Fun
Craft Stick Dominos – These craft stick dominos are an easy, homemade version of a domino game with a focus on learning letters and matching symbols. What a fun idea.
36. Flashcard Games
ABC Flashcards – Flashcards can be used by a variety of games and activities like flashcard basketball.
These ones are free. And so are these kids alphabet cards you can download & print instantly.
Related: Here are a bunch of ideas for flash card games for kids
Let’s play some more abc games!How to Help a Child Learn Letters and Sounds Through Play
37. Make a Sun-Powered Letter Puzzle
Make a DIY shape puzzle using the sun with alphabet letters for a really fun matching game you can play inside or out. Or use this method without the sun to make this fun abc matching game for kids.
38. Collect Alphabet Treasures
Use these free alphabet labels to create small containers for each letter of the alphabet for a special letter collection activity!
39. Make Easy Alphabet Crackers
Making alphabet crackers has never been easier or more fun!
–>Need an Alphabet Snack? I like these Happy Tot Organics ABC Multi-Grain Cookies…yum!
40. Play Alphabet Zipline!
Use these alphabet printable letters to create your own alphabet zipline in your living room.
It is really fun.
41. Play a Silly Letters Game
Try these alphabet games for preschool that are full of fun and a little silly…
42. Make Pipecleaner Letters!
Try to do some fun abc formation with pasta and pipe cleaners which is a fun way to explore letter shapes.
43. Make Bathtub Alphabet Soup
Use bath letters for a big big big batch of bubblebath alphabet soup {giggle}.
44. Color a Letter Coloring Page
- Letter A Coloring Page
- Letter B Coloring Page
- Letter C Coloring Page
- Letter D Coloring Page
- Letter E Coloring Page
- Letter F Coloring Page
- Letter G Coloring Page
- Letter H Coloring Page
- Letter I Coloring Page
- Letter J Coloring Page
- Letter K Coloring Page
- Letter L Coloring Page
- Letter M Coloring Page
- Letter N Coloring Page
- Letter O Coloring Page
- Letter P Coloring Page
- Letter Q Coloring Page
- Letter R Coloring Page
- Letter S Coloring Page
- Letter T Coloring Page
- Letter U Coloring Page
- Letter V Coloring Page
- Letter W Coloring Page
- Letter X Coloring Page
- Letter Y Coloring Page
- Letter Z Coloring Page
45.
Let’s Play with Playdough!These playdough pre writing activities are both fun and super hands-on learning.
Let’s make a yummy…I mean gummy…alphabet!46. Make Gummy Letters
This sour gummy recipe makes the cutest alphabet letters to learn and eat!
47. Try a Fun Alphabet Activity Book
There are so many quality workbooks for kids on the market right now so we narrowed it down to some of our favorites that just might fit your kid.
Let’s find the letters and make pictures with crayons!48. Color by Letter Activities for Letter Recognition Fun
We have a whole bunch of color by letter printable pages for kids that help them recognize letters while playing a game:
- Color by letter – A-E
- Color by letter worksheets – F-J
- Coloring by letters – K-O
- Color with letters – P-T
- Preschool color by letter – U-Z
49. Play the Missing Letter Game
Use one of our favorite preschool games, What is Missing? and use either letter flashcards or abc fridge magnet sets to create sequencing of the alphabet and then remove a letter or two.
50. Play Alphabet Beach Ball Toss
Modify our fun sight word game with letters instead of sight words. Your beach ball can be covered with the letters of the alphabet for throwing and catching learning fun.
Games for ABC Sounds
51. Learn and sing the ABC sounds song
I love this fun song from Rock ‘N Learn that goes through the entire alphabet with sounds for each of the letters.
52. Play an online ABC sounds game
Monster Mansion is a free online alphabet match game that kids can learn the abc sounds and match them with the proper letter on the proper monster!
53. Print & Play a letter sounds game
Preschool Play and Learn has a really colorful and fun letter sounds board game you can print and play at home or in the preschool classroom.
Each player will pick up a card and identify the letter and /or say the sound that the letter makes.
More Learning Games from Kids Activities Blog
- Now that we learned out letters, don’t miss out on our number activities for preschoolers!
- When your child is ready, we have a big giant list of sight word activities that are fun too!
- We have some really fun games teaching kids how to read a clock.
- My favorite massive resource of fun is our kids science games here at Kids Activities Blog.
- It doesn’t have to be October to play some frightful Halloween games.
- Let’s play math games for kids!
- If you need to work out the wiggles, we have the best indoor games for kids.
What was your favorite abc game? Did we miss some alphabet activities that you do with your kids?
6 Fun Letter-Sound Correspondence Games For Young Readers
What Is Letter-Sound Correspondence?
Letter-sound correspondence means exactly what the words say: It is the understanding that every letter corresponds to a specific sound or set of specific sounds.
Having a good grasp of letter-sound correspondence is crucial to learning to read. Think back to when you were learning to read. You were probably told to “sound out” words that were hard for you.
This was a good suggestion, but it required your knowing the letter sounds so that you could, sound-by-sound, figure out the unknown word.
That’s because letter-sound correspondence is at the heart of phonics and is the key to cracking the alphabetic code.
Is Learning Letter-Sound Correspondence Important?
This question gets an enthusiastic “yes” from us!
Without a solid understanding of letter-sound correspondence, children will struggle to learn how to read. They can end up relying on memorizing words, which will only work for a short time.
In order to read, then, your child must first see letters in a word, match each letter to a sound, and then blend those sounds to read the word. Eventually, this becomes automatic and reading becomes fluent.
We all know that a rock-solid foundation in the basics will encourage confidence, something your child will need in their toolbelt as they embark on their journey to becoming a strong, independent reader!
6 Fun And Easy Letter-Sound Correspondence Activities
1) Say The Sound
This first activity is simple but fun and effective!
To begin, you’ll give your child a letter.
Feel free to use any kind of letter you want — cut one out of cardstock, draw one on a piece of paper, etc. — but those magnetic letters that stick on the fridge may work best.
The goal of the game is for your child to say the sound that matches the letter you hand them. (Hint: you may have to remind your child not to use the letter name but only the letter sound.)
If they say the right sound, they get a point!
To make it more interesting, you can set a specific number of points for your child to reach. Once they reach 10 points, for example, they win the game!
2) Goldfish Toss
For this activity, your child can get a little more physical! If you’d like to give it a try, gather a big bowl and a pile of Goldfish treats (or any other small snack that’s easy to toss if you don’t have Goldfish crackers on hand).
When you’re ready to begin, say the name of a letter and let your child give the matching sound. When they say the correct letter sound, they get to throw a Goldfish cracker into the bowl.
The goal is to fill up the bowl with as many Goldfish as they can. And at the end of the game, you can go straight into snack time!
3) Letter Hop
The best part of this activity is that it gets your child moving and jumping. Not only will their brain be working, but their body will be, too!
For this game, you’ll need several target letters — B, T, and M for instance. Write each one on its own sheet of paper.
To begin, hold up one of the letters and say a sound. If the sound you said matches the letter you’re holding, then your child can make one giant hop toward you. Continue with another letter or repeat the same letter.
As your child gets better at the game, you can say a word instead of a sound. If the first sound in the word matches the letter you’re holding, then your child gets to hop.
The goal is to reach you in less than 10 turns. For even more fun, involve multiple kids and see who can reach you first!
4) Letter-Sound Treasure Hunt
This activity is another simple but effective one.
It’s like your child’s very own letter-sound correspondence treasure hunt!
To play, you’ll need several magnetic letters and a pillowcase. Drop all of the letters into the pillowcase, and then say a letter sound.
The goal is for your child to grab one letter at a time — for more of a challenge, doing so without looking! — until they pull the matching letter out of the bag.
5) Limbs And Letters, Oh My!
For this game, your child won’t just hear the letter-sound correspondence with their ears. They’ll make it with their arms and legs, too!
Every time you say a letter sound, your child will try their hardest to twist their body to make the shape of the letter that matches the sound they heard. This is sure to end in fits of laughter as they wiggle across the floor to bend their body into an “S” shape.
You can take turns making shapes with your bodies and contorting yourselves to look just like the alphabet! And feel free to partner up if your child can’t quite make the shape of a letter with only their body.
6) Muffin Pan Challenge
If you’re interested in trying this activity, you’ll need six letters, a muffin pan, and two sets of different small objects (coins and paper clips work great!).
To play, you will use one of the objects, while your child uses the other. You could be coins and your child could be paperclips, for example.
Place a different letter in each cup of the muffin pan. Say the sound of one of the letters and let your child try to drop a paperclip into the right cup. If they succeed, they get to claim that cup!
Next, your child can say the sound of one of the letters and have you toss a coin into the corresponding cup. (It doesn’t hurt if you have a LOT of trouble getting your coin in the right cup!) When you get the letter correct, you claim the cup.
When all the cups are full, whoever has the most items in the pan wins. And then, while you’ve got it out, maybe you can use the muffin pan to make a sweet treat together!
Letter-Sound Correspondence For A Bright Future
We hope that these activities were helpful! Remember, all children are unique.
A letter-sound correspondence game that works for one of your children may not do the trick with their siblings.
Don’t fret! There’s a perfect fit for every child. And we know that with you guiding them, your child will master letter-sound correspondence in no time!
At HOMER, we’re always here to lend a helping hand, and we would love to be a part of your routine! Our Learn & Grow app offers tons of personalized, effective activities to develop your child’s reading skills — letter-sound correspondence included!
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Continued. See the beginning in No. 18, 19, 20, 21/2008
Drawing by M. Ovchinnikova
Lesson 6. Letter Y
The lesson begins with a sound game (on choice) and a letter recognition game.
Talking to children
The teacher asks the children to look at a picture with a painted house near Bukvoedskaya fairy tale. “What letters lived in Petya’s house? What happened when Grandfather-Bukvoed decided to cook in one cauldron letter o , a , y , e and the letter th ?
What letters are the result of this sorcery? What sounds does the letter and represent? What sound is sung when we sound the letter I ?
Tasks for children
embossed letters letter i ".
2. "Put the letter on the landscape sheet and circle around contour. Remember: the head of the letter i always looks to the left. Color the letter.
3. Before the children - rhyming cards. teacher reads the rhyme aloud:
| Yasha walked through the forest, |
“Find in the rhyme all the letters and . Circle them with an orange triangle. Then find in the text the letters and , about , for , and ".
4. The teacher puts up on the board or in middle of the circle demonstration pictures. Under them are words with a missing first letter.
“Look at the pictures. What's on them drawn? Words under the pictures start with the letter i . Enter the letter and instead of passes. The teacher calls several children who draw the missing letters in words.
It is proposed to say these words again. At pronouncing the word, the teacher each time indicates to the letter and at the beginning. It's convenient, so how all words begin with a stressed syllable.
5.
“Choose any picture and draw a similar one. Sign her copying the word.
Homework for those who wish: draw capital letter i and turn it into your "letter" portrait.
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Sessions 7-9 (letters E, Y, Y)
Activity scenarios 7 (letter e ), 8 (letter y ) and 9 (letter ё ) are similar to the scenario of session 6. The teacher, if desired, can vary the sound games and games with letters.
Rhyme in which to find the letter e :
| Children ate on their birthday |
Rhyme to find the letter S :
| Blizzards are whistling in the north. |
To fill in the gaps in the words below pictures starting with the letter Yu , you need solve riddles:
“The first word is the name of the boy. His name is ... ( Yura ).
The second word denotes the direction of the world: not north, a… ( south ).
The third word means mobile home, made from animal skins… ( yurt ).
You need to guess what these words are, and write in them instead of gaps the letter and .
Looking at pictures in class, dedicated to the letter ё , we answer the questions:
“What is shown in the pictures?” into words under the pictures, instead of gaps, insert the letter e .
“Which picture in the row is missing? Why?"
Lesson 10. The letters Y, Z, E, Y
The lesson begins with a sound game (on choice) and a letter recognition game.
Activities for children
1. In front of each child is a card with contour house (, see No. 21 ). “Here is the house. Settle in it the letters a , about , y , e , s ".
2. “Draw another house next to it and populate it with Petya's new acquaintances: here you must live letters i , i , i , e ".
3. “Read the letters in the boxes of the new house. Can you sing the sounds that hide inside these letters?
Of course you can. After all, ours live in them old acquaintances - sounds [a], [o], [y], [e], those that stuck together with the sound [i]. So i , i , i , e - letters for vowels.
And since in them the sound [i] still lives, they are called iotized.
4. Game “What is the last letter?”.
First option. In front of children - cards with letters i , i , i , i . The leader (teacher) comes up with a word, which ends with an iotized letter, and says: "In the word" family "...". Children should finish the sentence: "... the last letter is i " - and show a card with the letter and .
Master: In the word "spear" ... | Children: ... the last letter of is . |
.. the last letter is y . Can be prepared ahead of time for convenience text cards.
Second version slightly different leader's words.
| Master: I will sing you a song. | Children: Last letter y . |
When the children have mastered the game, you can offer them to try their hand at the game one by one.
Homework for those who wish: draw all the letters that were found in fairy tales.
Lesson 11. The letter I
Lesson starts with registration exhibitions and viewing of drawings. teacher asks children to read the drawn letters.
Letter recognition games are held, reading interjections, singing sounds.
Reading or storytelling text
The pencil squeaks slightly.
But the letters look great!
The one who knows these letters,
He will easily revive them:
Once - and read the letter,
The letter will sound right away!
How good are you at drawing letters and bring sounds to life! How can you not be happy here? don't smile! Do you know what sound is the most smiling? Come on, smile and try it yourself guess. Of course, this is the sound [and].
It is no coincidence that he is heard in a very important the word "peace". The word "game" begins with it.
There is a special letter for the sound [and] - letter and . ( The teacher shows a card with letter and . ) Perhaps she was born from our smiles:
Smile - and the letter and
Give us a gift!
Tasks for children
0019 and . Read it."
2. “What sound does the letter and stand for? Can this sound sing? The sound [and] consists of voices, that means he…”
3. “Come up with words that start with to the sound [and], in which the sound [and] is heard in the middle, at the end".
Dictionary : games, name, willow, spark, Ira, Inna; world, feast, shooting gallery, view, rice, reef, rhyme, rhythm; talk, take, wake up, sit, look, fly.
4. In front of children - rhyming cards:
| Ancient General Kir |
“Find in the rhyme all the letters and , put a red dot under them. Then at icon help highlight others the letters you know to represent vowels. What letters for vowels were not in the text?
Lesson 12. The letter I and other letters for vowels
The lesson follows a familiar pattern.
Tasks for children
divided into boxes ( see in
No. 21 ). "Place houses. In one house there will be live letters denoting vowel sounds in another - letters denoting two sounds - the sound [i] and vowel".
2.
“Count the windows in each house. How many occupied apartments in the first house? How many occupied apartments are in the second house? A free window remained in the house for ioted letters. The letter will live with them and . Settle her in an unoccupied apartment.
3. “The letter and can also represent two sound - sound [i] and sound [and].
Listen:
Sparrows made a noise -
“Whose are you? Whose are you? Whose are you? Whose?".
“Rays
woke us up Sunshine, brooks murmur.
And now let's play.
Game "What is the last letter?".
In the word "nightingales" - ... the last letter is and .
In the word "sparrows" - ... the last letter is and .
In the word "ants" - ... the last letter is and .
In the word "brooks" - ... the last letter is and .
There is a rook. - No ... ( boats ). — The last letter is and .
There are hits. - No ... ( hits ). — Last letter and .
There is a tub. - No ... ( tubs ). The last letter is and .
4. For children, cards with pieces letters they know. "Restore the erased letters." Tasks can be individual: children restore different letters and define them. You can suggest coloring and decorating recovered letters.
5. Find your house game: completed work to restore letters, children become holders of cards with the image iotated or non-iotated vowels. By wave of the "magic" wand for the time of the upcoming games they themselves turn into these letters.
"Letters" of each group are collected in their own "house". It could be a circle a hoop or rope, or a flag, another symbol, around which you have to stand, holding hands, or really drawn on a dense paper or fabric on a dense base house with cells like the classics.
On the first signal, children scatter around the room, on the second they gather to your house. That team wins, "letters" which will be assembled faster. To
complicate the game, the host can change all the time team gathering place.
6. The lesson ends with the game “ Expressive sounds ". The mood of the sound [and] is added: “... We pronounce the sound [s] with malice and with a threat: teeth bared, fists clenched, whole body tense. Hold tight for a few seconds. But here the danger recedes: we frightened her.
Deep exhalation. The body relaxes fists are unclenched, hands are smoothly parted to the sides. Lips curl into a smile. We pronounce sound [and]: we are embraced by joy, tenderness, kindness".
Homework for those who wish: at painted houses to populate the unrated and iotized letters for vowels.
To be continued
Learn to Read Games for teaching children to read
Learning to read is a difficult task for young children.
At times, learning to read seems completely impossible, especially if the child has dyslexia due to phonemic hearing impairment and neurological problems.
Learn more about diagnosing dyslexia in a child in an article on the eKidz.eu blog. Fortunately, teachers and parents can successfully prevent reading difficulties in their children and enjoy it too! To do this, starting from preschool age, play games with words and images that develop visual and auditory perception, hand-eye coordination and spatial orientation, memory and attention of children. Educational games are easily integrated with other games that children have already played and will help foster a love of learning from childhood.
Let's learn some auditory and visual games!
Games for the development of verbal perception
Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and reproduce sounds, to understand that spoken words and syllables consist of a sequence of speech sounds (Yopp, 1992). Phonemic hearing begins to develop immediately after birth, and already at an early age the child already understands the acoustic characteristics of sounds.
However, in case of underdevelopment of speech, pronunciation disorders and difficulties in reading and writing in the future may occur.
So, here are a few games for the development of auditory perception and attention, recommended for children from 3 years old: "Guess the Sound" For example, put a blindfold on your child while you make sounds like snapping your fingers, clapping your hands, or tapping on the table.
"Where is the sound?" - determine the location of the sound: "Guess where it's calling" For example, hide an object that will make noise (such as a timer or your mobile phone) in a room, and then compete to be the first to find the hidden object.
Animal Sound Recognition “Guess who makes that sound?”, “Who is hiding in the house?” For example, make the sounds “woof, woof” like a dog, “meow” like a cat, or “moo” like a cow, and ask the child to guess the animal.
For the development of speech (phonemic) hearing, which is responsible for the definition of speech sounds, it is recommended to regularly involve children in games from 4-5 years old:
- "Catch the sound with your hands" - the development of sound recognition.
For example, ask a child to clap their hands as soon as they hear a certain "r" sound, and then say "The radish rarely grew in the garden, the garden was rarely in order."
- "Guess the object by the sound" - the definition of the object that makes the sound:
"Guess the sound" "Where is the sound?" - determining the place of sound in words by inserting a diagram into words.
For example, write out the sentence "Two plus two equals four" and have the child point wherever the letter "T" sounds.
“How many sounds?” - show as many fingers as the sounds were played. For example, say the word "elephant" and help your child understand that there are 4 sounds for each letter in the word.
- Select Image - Select an image that has a specific sound when the object's name is spoken aloud.
For example, take the colored cards and ask the child to identify each where the sound "C" is present and help the child understand that the common meaning for the color names "Blue" and "Grey" is sound.
Games for the development of visual perception
Due to insufficient development of visual recognition, children may confuse similar letters, name them incorrectly or have difficulty remembering them. To avoid this, play image games. It's fun and productive.
Spot the Difference - look at a couple of pictures and try to find the differences.
"Overlay images" - look at 3-5 contour images (objects, geometric shapes, letters, numbers) superimposed on each other and try to identify all the pictures.
"Hidden images" - give the child a few shapes consisting of elements of letters and geometric shapes. Try to find all the hidden images
"Noisy" images - show your child some noisy, contour images of objects, geometric shapes, numbers or letters. Try to name and identify all objects.
"Find a Pair" - show your child images of several objects that are similar but have slight differences. Try to define two identical objects.
"Unfinished Images" - study images with missing elements, such as a bird without a beak, a fish without a tail, a flower without petals, a sleeveless dress, a chair without a leg, etc. add details to complete the drawing.
"Images from dots" - show images of objects, geometric shapes, letters or numbers made up of dots. Try to name objects.
"Inverted Images" - show schematic images of objects, letters, numbers, reversed by 180°. Then try drawing the object upside down.
"Cut image" - cut the image into 2-3 parts. Children must assemble a whole picture from these fragments, like a puzzle.
For school-age children, all the games offered can be played with letters and numbers. This is how you work on developing visual fluency. And the following games will definitely appeal to older children!
"Find the letter" - select any text and while reading it, underline the letter "A" with one line, the letter "H" with two lines and put a dot under the letter "O".
"What has changed?" - invite the child to look at several cards with letters (words, numbers, geometric shapes, etc.) and turn away or leave the room. After changing the cards, the child must determine what has changed.
