Name:__________________________________________ Letter Race We have been playing the letter race game in class and the how to play at home students love it. Here’s Get at least one other friend to play this game. Write letters your child has difficulty with on printer paper. Tape the letters to the wall. Make duplicates of the letters to show to your child. Stand far away from the letters. (Adult): Hold up one of the duplicate letters and letter is ask “what this?” (Child): Call out the letter. Race to the correct letter on the other side of the room. If you do not call out the letter you to the letter. If you run to the wrong letter you do not get a point. can’t run The first one to the correct letter gets a point. The first one to 10 points wins! Ways to modify this activity Educational games like this can always be modified to meet the needs of your child. This game can be made to be easier or much harder. Make the game easier by only using a few of the letters in your have to use the letters child’s name. You don’t I suggested. Make the game a little harder by not holding up the duplicate to the letter that makes the cards. Example “Run /t/ sound. Make the game much harder by referring to words that start with that letter. to the letter that is Example “Run the first letter of the word ‘tiger.’” Make the game very hard by introducing sight words instead of letters. For example, use “the”, “in”, “this”, Make duplicates of each of the words. Hold up one of the words. Just like the original activity, “to”, “go”, “is” they must read the word before they run to it. Keep track of your score here!-Play the game more than once-Just make a new score card
Name:__________________________________________ Letter Race We have been playing the letter race game in class and the students love it. Here’s how to play at home Get at least one other friend to play this game. Write letters your child has difficulty with on printer paper. Tape the letters to the wall. Make duplicates of the letters to show to your child. Stand far away from the letters. (Adult): Hold up one of the duplicate letters and ask “what letter is this?” (Child): Call out the letter. Race to the correct letter on the other side of the room. If you do not call out the letter you can’t run to the letter. If you run to the wrong letter you do not get a point. The first one to the correct letter gets a point. The first one to 10 points wins! Ways to modify this activity Educational games like this can always be modified to meet the needs of your child. This game can be made to be easier or much harder. Make the game easier by only using a few of the letters in your child’s name. You don’t have to use the letters I suggested. Make the game a little harder by not holding up the duplicate cards. Example “Run to the letter that makes the /t/ sound. Make the game much harder by referring to words that start with that letter. Example “Run to the letter that is the first letter of the word ‘tiger.’” Make the game very hard by introducing sight words instead of letters. For example, use “the”, “in”, “this”, “to”, “go”, “is” Make duplicates of each of the words. Hold up one of the words. Just like the original activity, they must read the word before they run to it. Keep track of your score here!-Play the game more than once-Just make a new score card
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