Prepare your 2 to 6 year olds to READ!

 

READING PREPARATION ACTIVITIES include those which develop vocabulary, sorting and classification skills, and understanding of relationships between sounds we hear and the letters we use to represent them.  Lakeview's sorting sets provide for all of these... and in an interesting, inviting way.  Children are drawn to the interesting, realistic looking objects which they are able to manipulate as they sort and classify. 

Introductory sorting sets, aimed at the 18 month (with adult supervision) to 4 year old, helps a child learn to identify and classify familiar things like animals, fruits, vegetables, and vehicles.

 

Intermediate sorting activities geared to the 3 to 5 year old introduce more difficult vocabulary and require more  discrimination skills as the child differentiates between kinds of sea animals or types of sports equipment.

 

Advanced sorting  kits prepare the 4 to 6 year old to make fine discriminations and learn more difficult vocabulary such as types of sharks, whales and dinosaurs. Children in the 3 to 6 age range are also able to develop letter sorting and discrimination skills with our letter sorting sets.  These can also be used to reinforce letter sounds  so the child learns that the letter s says "Ssss" like in snake.

 

Once the child has learned to visually and auditorally discriminate objects and letters, he moves on to understanding the relationship between sounds and the letters which represent them. Children of 3 and 4 are usually able to identify the first sounds of words first. Initially, they enjoy a game of "I spy" with objects that they choose to match the sound the teacher has given eg. I spy something that starts with m, and the child chooses the monkey object.

 

Next, they can practice "hearing" the beginning sound and matching objects which start with that sound to the letters in our Beginning Sound Chart, Animal Beginning Sound game, and later the S blend and R Blend activities. Usually, the ending sound is the next thing they are able to identify, so the ending sound sets A and B can be used.

Finally the child will be able to hear the middle sounds of phonetic words, and the short vowel sorting provides great practice for differentiating between the sounds made by a, e, i, o, and u, in phonetic words. All the while, the child enjoys using objects which expand his vocabulary, attract and hold his attention, and incorporate tactile, visual and auditory learning, as they prepare to learn to read.

 

Logical Phonics Activities make READERS out of 4 to 6 year olds!