This document contains a schedule of pre-literacy activities for parents to do with their child over the course of October. Each day recommends reading with the child for 15 minutes, followed by an activity to practice skills like letter recognition, rhyming, counting, sorting, and sight words. The activities progress in difficulty through the month and aim to engage the child in foundational skills to support early reading development.
This document contains a schedule of pre-literacy activities for parents to do with their child over the course of October. Each day recommends reading with the child for 15 minutes, followed by an activity to practice skills like letter recognition, rhyming, counting, sorting, and sight words. The activities progress in difficulty through the month and aim to engage the child in foundational skills to support early reading development.
Draw 2 things that begin with the same sound as your name. 2 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Point to the first and last word in a sentence. How many words in the sentence? 3 Read with your child for 15 minutes.
Practice drawing circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles 6 Read with your child for 15 minutes.
Practice sorting your toys by things that are the same (color, size, shape) 7 Read with your child for 15 minutes.
Highlight or circle sight words in a newspaper or magazine. 8 Read with your child for 15 minutes.
Practice counting backwards from 10-0 9 Read with your child for 15 minutes.
Put five toys in a line and find the 1st, 3rd, 5th, etc 10 Read with your child for 15 minutes.
Look at a calendar. Find todays date. What day of the week is it? 13 Read with your child for 15 minutes.
Draw something that starts with each of these letters: b, n, h, s, and a 14 Read with your child for 15 minutes.
Put these words in order to form a sentence. bird I see a red
15 Read with your child for 15 minutes.
Write your first and last name. Draw a picture of yourself. 16 Read with your child for 15 minutes.
Tell about three things that happened at school today. (in order first, next, last) 17 Read with your child for 15 minutes.
Draw a picture of a new friend from school. 20 Read with your child for 15 minutes.
Make 2 groups of toys. Which one has more, less, fewer, etc. 21 Read with your child for 15 minutes.
Practice counting to 30. 22 Read with your child for 15 minutes.
Write your name and sight words. 23 Read with your child for 15 minutes.
Find something that is cold and something that is hot in your house. 24 Read with your child for 15 minutes.
Practice writing the alphabet in lowercase letters *Start each letter at the top 27 Read with your child for 15 minutes.
Dog rhymes with _______. Cat rhymes with _______. Pop rhymes with _______. 28 Read with your child for 15 minutes.
Put cans from pantry in a line. Name which is before the corn, after the beans, etc. 29 Read with your child for 15 minutes.
Find 5 things that are the color blue and practice writing the color words. 30 Read with your child for 15 minutes.
Practice writing the alphabet in lowercase letters 31 Read with your child for 15 minutes.
Happy Halloween! Draw a picture of what you were for Halloween.
First Nine Weeks Sight Words: I, can, see, like, a, the, we, to, and, go, you