Helping
Your Child at Home - Checklist
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- Read
aloud to your child. Research has proved that this
is the most important thing a parent can do to ensure
a child's reading success.
- Have
your child read to you.
- Do
shared reading. you read a sentence. Your child
reads a sentence.
- At
the market have your child read product labels.
- Obtain
a library card for your child and check out a book.
- Encourage
your child to read the newspaper. Discuss articles
together.
- Measure
objects and rooms in the house together.
- Subscribe
to child oriented magazines. Read them together.
- View
television programs together. Discuss them afterwards.
- Create
flash cards for your child's particlar needs - alphabet
recognition, vocabulary words, numbers, math facts,
states and capitals, etc. Use flash cards in a variety
of game activities.
- Have
your child follow a recipe, measure ingredients
and prepare a dish.
- Begin
a story and have your child finish it.
- Using
magazines, go on a phonics picture hunt looking
for pictures of things that begin with specific
letters.
- Go
on a color, shape or number walk. Your child points
out things that are a particular color or shape,
or counts items such as trees, houses and mailboxes.
- Have
your child figure change from the grocery or department
store.
- Encourage
your child to write stories on a typewriter or computer.
- Play
games on the refrigerator with magnetic letters
and numbers
- Writes
notes to your child. Place them around the house
on the bed, on the door, on the mirror, in a luchbox.
- Have
your child write letters and thank you notes to
friends and relatives.
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