Help your child discover the love of words by becoming little detectives as you build language skills together.1. At a very early age, start creating flash cards for every new word your child learns (these flashcards can continue to be made for many years).
2. Have them write out the words, keep the cards in a big bucket, accessible for play.
3. Encourage your child to be "on the look-out" wherever you go, identifying and recognizing words that you see (i.e., stop, go, yield, exit, etc).
4. Add new words to your flashcards when you return home from a trip to the store, a ride in the car, etc.
5. Buy magnets for your refrigerator or magnet board so that your child can arrange the letters of words that they see.
6. Play rhyming games (in the car or when your child is taking a bath) to think of words that sound the same (i.e., mouse, house, blouse).
7. Cut out words and letters from children's magazines and big print words from newspapers and play games with the word. For instance, you might cut out every "the" you see and paste them onto construction paper. Maybe you and your child would like to shape the words into a circle, square or flower.
8. Each day, come up with a new word to look for, spend time with your child finding that word to cut and paste.
9. You might also try a letter hunt around the house by cutting out the letters in you child's name and hunting for each one until the name is correctly laid out on the rug!
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