Comprehension

Definition: the action or

capability of understanding

Online activity:
http://www.earobics.com/game
goo/games/tina/tina.html
Real or Make Believe
Decide if a story is real or make
believe

Home Activity:
Before During After
Read a book aloud with the child
and have them make predictions
before, ask questions and review
vocabulary words during, and
reflect on the story after.

The Five
Components of
Literacy
Fluency
Definition: the ability to read text

accurately, quickly, and understand

what was read.

Online activity:
http://www.starfall.com
Online Reading Activities

Home Activity:
Echo Reading
An experienced reader reads a line
from a book and the inexperienced
reader (student) echoes or reads the
sentence just as the experienced
reader has.

Sam Eschner
SUNY FREDONIA
Esch4869@fredonia.edu

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Vocabulary
Definition: The body of words known to an individual person

Online Activity:
Flood Vocabulary Game Pick three words belonging to the same category.
http://pbskids.org/lions/games/flood.html

Home Activity: Word of the Week Family members take turns choosing a Word of
the Week. They post the word and the definition on a post it on the fridge and the
entire family has to try to use the word as much as possible throughout the week.

Phonemic
Awareness
Definition: The ability to hear, identify, and
manipulate the individual sounds
phonemes in spoken words

Online Activity:
http://www.literactive.com/Download/live.as
p?swf=story_files/Listen_And_Match_US.swf
Watch the Sound
Students match the cans that have the same
sounds drums, horns, squeaks, etc.

Home Activity:
Grocery Store Sound Shopping

Have the child pick one or two sounds to

search for while grocery shopping, for
example the /mmm/ sound can be found
in milk or macaroni

Phonics
Definition:
A method of teaching people to read by
correlating sounds with letters or groups of
letters in an alphabetic writing system.

Online activity:
http://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/games/p
awpark/pawpark.html
Kangaroo Confusion
Match uppercase and lowercase letters.

Home activity:
Letter Collages
Have a student create a collage by cutting
out one specific letter from magazine pages.
You can simply complete one or go on to
complete a letter collage for each alphabet
letter.