Literacy Games to Play at Home
1. ABCya online games
2. Starfall online games
Literacy Games to Play at Home to
Reinforce Letters, Letter Sounds, and Sight Words:
1. Letter recognition (capital or lowercase):
Have your child Identify letters by their names “Find the letter "B.”
2. Letter sounds:
Match the written letter with the sound the letter makes
“Find the letter that makes the /b/ sound.” (You say the lettersound not the letter)
3. Word segmentation:
Hear the different sounds that make up words and identify either beginning or
ending sounds of words. “Find the letter that is at the beginning
of the word bat.” (You can “stretch” the word by saying /b/ /a/ /t/ to help your
child hear each sound.)
4. Sight word recognition:
Identify words “Find the word "have.”
5. Practice writing drawing pictures and writing about it.
Parking Lot:
You will need a small toy car, such as a matchbox car. On a
blank piece of paper, draw a parking lot with 10 spaces (filled in with letters or words)
Ask your child to drive the car to certain letters, letter sounds, or words
that you say.
Bingo:
Make a 4x4 or 5x5 grid. If two or more people want to play, then
you will need to make a grid for each person; make sure that the letters or words
are scrambled in different orders on each player’s sheet.
Tic-Tac-Toe #1
This is a good way to practice handwriting and spelling. Instead
of using X’s and O’s, use: the capital and lowercase versions of
a certain letter; two different letters; two different words
Tic-Tac-Toe #2
Make a tic-tac-toe grid, and write a different letter or word in
each space. You can play by making the usual X’s and O’s or you can cover the
spaces with two types of coins or other markers (colored bottle caps, etc.)
instead. Before a player can claim a space, s/he must identify the letter or read
the word in that space.
I-Spy:
You can play I Spy by focusing on objects that begin with a certain letter or that
rhyme with a certain word.
Letter example: “I spy with my little eye something that starts with D.”
Rhyming example: “I spy with my little eye something that rhymes with hair. It’s something in this room. It’s a .” (Answer: chair.)