Learn to Read with Hands-On Activities

Learn to Read with Hands-On Activities

Learn to Read with Hands-On Activities

One of the best ways for children to learn to read is by doing fun projects to help them remember their letter sounds. Hands-on activities are a wonderful way to help children cement letter sounds as they learn to read.

Make sure as you do these projects that you also incorporate the auditory aspect of learning by having them say the letter sounds several times after you throughout the project. Combining all three aspects of learning - visual, auditory, and kinesthetic gives your child the best opportunity to retain the information you are trying to teach.

Most teaching involves the visual and auditory aspect but leaves out the kinesthetic aspect because it is not as convenient and takes some creativity to add movement to the concept being taught. This is tragic since most young children are hardwired for movement and thrive on learning with action.

Here are some fun ideas to do together:

Make letter shapes from cooked spaghetti noodles and let them harden. As your child forms the letters, the action involved in creating the letter shapes will help them recall the shape and sound much more easily.

Make letter shapes out of play dough.

Pour pancake batter into letter shapes. You can get a bottle that lets you easily write with pancake batter at William Sonoma. My son loves me to make the letters in his name with it.

Use letter shaped cookie cutters to cut out cookies into letters.

Glue cotton balls to construction paper forming letter shapes with them.

Cut large letters out of magazines and also cut out pictures that start with the sound you are teaching. Then glue the letters and the pictures to some construction paper. Practice saying the letter sound you are studying with the pictures you cut out.

Write the letters you are studying on construction paper and have your child draw a picture of something that begins with that sound.

Have your child act out something that starts with the letter sound you are teaching. For example, if you are teaching the letter S', your child could pretend to be a snake.

Write the letters you are studying on construction paper. Then talk about what the letter looks like that starts with its sound. For example, the letter S' could look like a snake. This may take some creativity, but once you come up with something, draw on the letter to make it look like something that starts with the letter. So, for the snake example, you would turn the letter S' into a snake by adding a rattle on end of the S' and drawing a tongue and some eyes on the other end of the S'. This is a very powerful visual reminder that helps the child easily put together the shape of a letter with its sound.

Not only will your child retain the information better with these fun hands-on activities, but they will have a great time as they learn to read. And an enjoyment of learning and reading is imperative if your child is to become a life-long self-motivated learner.

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