Many parents will want to know how they can help their children with reading skills at home. A teacher may provide both general and intervention-specific strategies to parents. For general home reading strategies, click on the links below:
- Helping Your Child When He.She Reads (to be accessed online or sent home)
- How to do Paired Reading With Your Child (to be accessed online or sent home)
- Read Alouds with Parents
- Reading Comprehension for Parents
Intervention-specific interventions may be shared with parents at the teacher’s discretion. Some helpful links are included below for parents of a student receiving an intervention in:
- Comprehension
- High Frequency Words
- Letter Identification
- Letter Sounds and Phonics
- Oral Reading Fluency
- Phoneme Blending
- Phoneme Segmentation
- Vocabulary
Below are some printable games with directions for kindergarten and early first grade students. Click on the title of the game to download the “printables” for parents:
- Crash-Sight Words
- Go Fish – Easy Sight Words
- Go Fish – Medium Sight Words
- Go Fish – Hard Sight Words
- Picking Pumpkins Beginning Sounds (g,h,j,k,l,m,n,p,q,r,s,t)
- Rhyming Word and Picture Cards/Beginning Sound Cards
- Rotten Bananas – Sight Words
- Squirrel Sounds Matching Beginning Sounds (/b/, /c/, /f/, /m/, /r/, /s/)
