Games for letter recognition / pre-reading?
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Our child is 4 and in a Montessori preschool. The teacher recommended we reinforce some of the learning-letters work at home. Are there any good games or sets for this? For example, the Montessori materials have a set where you can match pictures of things with the letter sound that the pics start with. L is lion, leaf, lettuce, etc. Any suggestions would be great, thank you.
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Anonymous
| Use things you have in a natural way. "Can you find the "L" on that box of cereal?" "What letters do you see on my license plate?" "Pretzel starts with "P," so let's make a "p" shape with pretzels." |
Anonymous
| I am also a Montessori teacher. Just read to her a lot and foster a love of words, stories, etc. I have some ideas (bingo, hiding letters in sand, magazine letter collages, "find the letter/sound" hunt, etc) ....go on Pinterest to find more ideas, and ask her teacher =) |
Anonymous
| creating letters out of clay or playdoh was always a favorite. |
Anonymous
| Thanks, posters. I do appreciate the suggestions, but we already do many of those things and her teacher specifically suggested seeing if there were games out there. My daughter knows her letters and all the sounds already, and she loves books. The gap we're looking to fill is that she isn't doing the actual Montessori "work" at school, so we're looking to sort of get buy-in for the school type work at home too. |
Anonymous
I guess I should have specified more like board or card games is what I meant. Just re-reading what I said and it's confusing. |
Anonymous
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How about something like Melissa & Doug's alphabet letter puzzles, or, if you are not anti-screen time, something like Elmo's ABC's on the iPad or another one of those "educational" apps that has kids match sounds to letters and pictures.
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Anonymous
Rather than more pre-reading, I'd start teaching her reading. C-V-C words, phonics books. |
Anonymous
| There are some Leap Frog card games that we used with both kids. |
Anonymous
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https://www.amazon.com/Leap-Frog-My-Card-Games/dp/B000VHA8B8/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1475681991&sr=8-2&keywords=leap+frog+card+game
PP again. That's the one we used! |
Anonymous
| It sounds like the teacher needs to offer her new activities if she's already mastered letters and letter sounds but avoiding that particular "work." Maybe the problem is a "work" versus "game" branding issue or she needs to better understand that there's a light at the end of the tunnel... complete the first work and then there will be something more fun/challenging/novel. |
Anonymous
Well, I certainly intend to draw that connection at home. I believe the teacher is too, but if not I don't want to be that parent who's all "my kid isn't challenged enough, that's why she's being a pill in your class." But I hear you. And thanks to the others for the leads. |
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| Miss Rhonda's Readers has a set of letter cards that are very good. She is a Montessori teacher. And then, when you're ready, her beginning readers books are wonderful. |
Anonymous
| It's an IPad game: Endless Alphabet and Endless Readers. Very well done, emphasizes the sounds the letters make, helped my kid a lot with letter recognition. |
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