Ways to Help Your Child Learn

1.  Keep learning time short and fun! (10-15 min. daily is much better than forty-five minutes or an hour at one time.

2.  Review daily the letters (capital, lower case, and sound) and sight words we have studied.  Reading the little books that are sent home with your child is a great way to review sight words, sound out words, and practice blending (putting sounds together.) Let your child choose 2 or 3 each day.

3.  Play "application" games daily.  Say a word or show a picture and ask your child what letter it begins with.  Try to use words and pictures that begin with letters we have studied.

4.  Try to get in the "habit" of working a few minutes each day with your child.

5.  Read stories daily with your child.  Children love to hear you read to them, and reading also expands their vocabularies.

6.  Make flash cards with sight words and number words to practice at home.  It is also great to look for these words on signs, in magazines and on boxes and cans!