SEALS

1. SEALS Welcome to Selinsgrove Elementary’s First GradeLiteracy Night!

2. Phonics and Sight Word Activities You Can Practice With Your Child

3. Phonics: Why is it important? • Phonics allows your child to connect the sounds he hears to the written letter or word.

4. Activities to Try with Your Child: 1. White Board Spelling frog 2. Change-a-Letter b a t c

5. Activities to Try with Your Child: 3. Writing Words hot pot not 4. Silent Rhyming got

6. Activities to Try with Your Child: 5. Bathtub Phonics 6. Word Family Collage

7. Activities to Try with Your Child: 7. Fancy Fingers hat hat hat 8. Building Words o d g a b t

8. Sight Words: Why are they important? • Sight words refer to the words that are most frequently used and repeated in books. Sight words are also sometimes referred to as high frequency words, star words or vocabulary words.

9. Activities to Try with Your Child: 1. One Breath Word Boxes 2.I SPY Sight Word Bottles

10. Activities to Try with Your Child: 3. Popsicle Stick Match-Up there 4. Sight Word Swat can what how not

11. Activities to Try with Your Child: 5. Hamburger/Pancake Flip Sight Words from when see 6. Tissue Box Roll-a-Word Race To The Top she them

12. Activities to Try with Your Child: 7. Sight Word Parking Lot 8. Mystery Words Coloring

13. Activities to Try with Your Child: 9. Sight Word Aerobics 10. Blind Writing can t p o see

14. Activities to Try with Your Child: 11. Using Manipulatives

15. Activities to Try with Your Child: 12. Sight Word Scavenger Hunt the to 13. Sight Word Relay o a f e d u t b s g n b

16. Reading Aloud to Your Child at Home • Read aloud every day! • Answer your child’s questions, even if they interrupt the story.

17. Reading Aloud to Your Child at Home • Talk as you read. Ask questions like: “What would you do?” “What do you think is going to happen next?” “Why did that character do that?”

18. Reading Aloud to Your Child at Home • Read books that are interesting to your child. • Encourage your child! 

19. Reading Aloud to Your Child at Home • Have your child retell the story in his or her own words. • After finishing the book, talk with your child about what you read.

20. Thank You for Attending Selinsgrove Elementary’s First GradeLiteracy Night!