Reading Activity For Kids
We have been working on Teach Your Child To Read In 100 Easy Lessons for both kids this year. My son is doing great, but as we got into the book with my daughter I decided it was going a little fast for her Kindergarten attention span so we eased up a bit. In lieu of that I went looking for reading activities in which she could practice what she learned so far and not be inundated with new information.
On Little Brick Cottage I found this awesome activity which I made myself with supplies already in my house right away.
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This is the finished project used the first day! I made it out of pink poster board that we had, drew up the sheets with a sharpie and a ruler and bits of writing paper we had cut up to fit in the last column. Then I copied the paper in the printer, printed the words out at the top, glued it to the poster board, then laminated it with contact paper. They can use it over and over with dry-erase pens! 
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I already had these letters on hand that I recently purchased from a local teaching warehouse, I found the bins at Hobby Lobby to store them in, half of the alphabet in each bin.
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I printed the words on white card stock instead of paper so they would hold up to the wear and tear of daily use. We started with the Dolch pre-primer list. 
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This is my daughter hard at work!
This turned out to be easy to make and a fun activity for her to do while her brother is reading away in the higher lessons! I LOVE this find.
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February 9th, 2012 at 8:43 am
What a great idea! I’ll have to try it. Did you buy the letters at Banks School Supply? Are they magnetic? I’ve been wanting to get magnetic letters like we had through COVA but I’ve been putting it off. Did you splurge for a laminator? Thanks for sharing!
February 9th, 2012 at 8:45 am
This is an amazing idea! We used scrabble tiles in a tub to play and form words with. My teens are too old for this, but I will surely pass this one on to other moms teaching younger children. Thank you.
February 9th, 2012 at 9:28 am
no laminator, still using up our stash of clear contact paper. it works fine so far! we did get the letters at banks, but they are not magnetic. i don’t have a board that is magnetic for them to work on, so i went with the regular letters.
happy reading!
February 9th, 2012 at 12:56 pm
Love this! I just found your blog from the WTM forums, and will be checking back often!!
February 10th, 2012 at 5:19 am
Clever, clever idea! I must root through our supplies to see what I can come up with.
February 10th, 2012 at 7:47 am
This idea looks great! I have heard of this book several times and I thinking about getting it to work through with my daughter in the coming months.
February 10th, 2012 at 9:43 am
glad you gals can enjoy this as much as i did! it was fun to make and we love using it!