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Rapid Automatic Naming (RAN)
A well developed vocabulary is essential for language development. Being able to quickly label a variety of different objects from a range of categories builds vocabulary and word retrieval. Rapid Automatic Naming (RAN) is the ability to recall information automatically with speed and accuracy. This skill is needed for reading fluency as children get older.
It’s easy to do and the little ones love it, take a look…
Flash Cards Vocabulary Check and Speedy Word Recall
Research indicates that phonemic awareness is the most important skill needed for literacy.
Phonemic awareness is the ability to process individual speech sounds. Your child needs to hear the individual sounds that blend together to make words.
Take a look at little Mia, she listens carefully to the words broken into sounds and then pushes them together, makes the word and identifies the matching picture. The illustrations provide an aid to assist children.
It’s easy to do and the little ones love it, take a look…
Sounds Of The Sea Activity 1
Research indicates that phonemic awareness is the most important skill needed for literacy.
Phonemic awareness is the ability to process individual speech sounds. Your child needs to hear the individual sounds that blend together to make words.
Sounds of the Sea, activity one is perfect for developing this skill in a playful way with your magic stick. Check out the video below for an example of how to play the game with your little one.
Need some extra words broken into sounds for when you’re playing?
Two Sounds
p-ee | z-oo | sh-oe | k-ey | b-oy | a-ce | d-ay | ea-ch | h-ay | u-p
Three Sounds
g-ee-se | f-oo-t | j-a-ck | c-o-p | p-ea-ch | s-u-n | t-ee-th | p-ai-l | th-i-n | b-ea-ch
Four sounds
t-w-i-g | s-l-i-p | f-l-u-sh | c-l-o-g | s-l-ee-p | d-r-i-p | c-r-a-b | s-n-o-b | t-oa-s-t | d-r-ea-m
Playdough
We know just how fantastic playdough is for developing your child’s fine motor skills. Now we can play with playdough and help develop lots of other skills as well. Use your playdough board and try the following activities with your child.
Some new ideas
Have your child roll three different sized balls, then give them directions about where to place them.
For example, ask them to place the largest ball on the pink spot, the smallest ball on the green spot and the middle-sized ball on the yellow spot.
If three-step instructions are a little too hard, drop back to two or start of by giving one instruction at a time.
Add in some positional language
For example, ask them to place the largest ball in the middle, the smallest ball above it and the medium sized ball below them both.
Add in some number concepts
Have your child roll out five balls.
For example, ask them to place two in the pink spot, less than two in the green spot and more than two in the yellow spot.
Verbalising & Visualising
Visualising and verbalising is a strategy created by Nanci Bell, an expert in the treatment of language and literacy disorders. It teaches children comprehension and language processing to build pictures in their minds as they listen, and later, as they read. Creating mental images when reading can greatly assist comprehension. Proficient readers create visual images while they read.
Visualisation also helps with remembering things. Once children have seen an image, it makes it a lot easier for them to recall it later. Further, when they draw it, it becomes ingrained in their minds.
There are three steps to visualising:
- Imagining. Close your eyes and think about what I am saying. Think about colours, shapes, sizes, characters, where it is happening, and what the characters are doing.
- Visualising. Draw what you saw in your head when you imagined the words.
- Verbalising. Explain (or answer questions about) what you imagined and visualised from the words I said.
You will find a Verbalising & Visualising PDF available to download at the bottom of each pack.
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Books
Click a book below to download its activity sheet.
