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    Reading Games for Young Children
    Reading Games for Young Children
    Reading Games for Young Children
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    Reading Games for Young Children

    By Jackie Silberg

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    Teachers and caregivers of children ages 3-6
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGryphon House Inc.
    Release dateJan 1, 2005
    ISBN9780876597859
    Reading Games for Young Children
    Author

    Jackie Silberg

    Jackie Silberg, who has an M.S. in child development, is an early childhood advocate and popular keynote speaker. She received the Distinguished Alumna Award from Emporia State University, recognizing her current achievements as well as her long and prolific career. Jackie founded and directed the Jewish Community Center School of Music in Kansas City, Missouri, and worked for Channel 41 television, planning the music and performing her original music for a children's program called "41 Treehouse Lane." She wrote and produced a television show for Time Warner called "Just Kids," which addressed children's needs and interests. Jackie has worked as a consultant with the Discovery Channel, setting up their music streaming website. She has given workshops, keynote addresses, seminars, and family concerts throughout the U.S., Canada, Australia, Germany, and in Singapore. Jackie has served as an adjunct instructor at both Emporia State University and the University of Missouri at Kansas City and lectures at Johnson County Community College. Jackie is the owner of Miss Jackie Music Company.

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      Reading Games for Young Children - Jackie Silberg

      Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter 1 Alliteration Games

      Drawing Alliteration

      We Are Going to ________

      Food Names

      The Alliteration Game

      First Sound Fun

      The B Collection

      Acting Out Alliteration

      The First Sound Store

      The Train Game

      Willaby Wallaby Woo

      Pawpaw Patch

      Betty, Batter, Butter, Bitter

      Chapter 2 Alphabet Games

      Texture Letters

      Letters in the Room

      Writing on a Picture

      Write and Say

      The Alphabet Index

      Bingo Art

      Rainbow Letters

      Tracing Over Letters

      Close Your Eyes Art

      Letter Games

      Alphabet Art

      Find the Letter __

      Feel the Letter

      Where’s the Letter?

      The Mail Is Here

      Fill in the Letters

      Looking for the Ace

      Card Royalty

      Alphabet Phone Conversation

      Alphabet Singing

      If Your Name…

      Alphabet Camera

      The Alphabet Activities

      Outside the Window, I See ______

      Name the Letter

      Circle the Letter

      Eraser

      Making A’s

      A Puppets

      Giant Letters

      Body Alphabet

      The Parade of Letters

      10 Ways to Say the Alphabet

      Fill the Can

      Find Your Letters

      Nursery Rhyme Letters

      Window Letters

      Letter Detectives

      Looking at Letters Differently

      What Does the Cook Like?

      Letter Buffet

      Palm Reading Game

      Looking for Letters

      Uppercase Picture Cards

      Lowercase Picture Cards

      Matching Letters

      Alphabet Chanting

      Sunshine Letters

      Saved by the Bell

      Musical Letters

      Creamy Letters

      Sandpaper Letter Game

      Scrabble® Letters

      Chapter 3 Letter Sound Games

      The Puppet Game

      The B Balloon

      Sounds to Say

      Singing Same Sounds

      The First Sound Song

      Singing the Vowels

      Long Vowels Chant

      How Many P’s?

      Matching Sounds

      Sounds Around

      Snake Art

      What’s My Sound?

      Favorite Treats

      Beginning Sound Game

      Silly Names

      The Sound Shopping Trip

      It’s in the Bag

      I’m Thinking of a Sound

      Matching Sounds

      Sticker Sound Story

      Same or Different

      Do You Hear the S?

      Sound Sentences

      1-2-3, Say the Sound

      Listening for Sounds

      Separating Sounds

      Tap the Sounds

      Listen to My Rhythm

      Punch Out the Last Sound

      Jumping the Phonemes

      Chapter 4 Name Games

      My Name Is _________

      Writing Names

      Musical Names

      Who Is Here?

      Learning and Spelling Names

      Where’s Your Name?

      Finding Names

      New Names

      The Letters in My Name

      Letters in Your Name

      Reading Names

      Rolling for Names

      Name Fishing

      Singing Names

      The Book of Names

      Name Game

      Letter Tasks

      Cheering Names

      Find Your Name

      Clapping Names

      Bippity Bippity Bumblebee

      Hole Punch Letters

      Chapter 5 Oral Blending and Segmenting Games

      Say the Sound

      What’s the Word?

      Sing the Phonemes

      The Three-Sound Game

      Baseball Blending

      Find the Sound

      Listen for the Sound

      Stretching Names

      Which Is First?

      Poem Segments

      Beginning Blends

      Sing the Sound

      Turtle Talk

      Clapping Syllables

      Names of Toys

      Reading the Snake Way

      Chapter 6 Rhyming Games

      One-Syllable Rhymes

      Rhyming Poetry

      Nursery Rhyme Rhymes

      Rhyming Books

      The Disappearing House

      Substituting Sounds

      The Rhyming Clown Face

      Clap the Rhyme

      Claps

      Same or Different

      Sit Down Rhymes

      Thumbs Up for Rhymes

      Roger Dodger

      Sticker Rhymes

      Match the Rhyme

      Finding Rhymes

      A Rhyme Picture

      A Rhyme Book for You

      Finish the Rhyme

      Down by the Bay

      Food Rhymes

      Rhymes Around the Room

      Body Name Rhyme

      Silly Sentence Game

      Partner Rhymes

      Rhyming Fun

      Rhyming Names

      Me-O My-O

      Chapter 7 Sequencing Games

      Aunt Sally

      Sequencing Songs

      Sing in Order

      Going to the Market

      Sequencing Sounds

      Another Sound Sequence Game

      Two-Part Stories

      Writing a Letter

      Chapter 8 Sight Word Games

      How to Learn New Words

      Mind Reading

      Flash the Word

      Word Wall Rhymes

      Word Wall Sentences

      Tapping Out Words

      Word Wall Cheer

      Word Wall Chain

      Word Wall Bingo

      Chapter 9 Story Play Games

      Creative Storytelling

      Suggestions for Reading Books

      Stories From Art

      Story Retelling

      Stories Come to Life

      Tic Tac Toe Story

      What’s on the Page?

      Listening for Differences

      Fun Games With a Book

      A Together Story

      Imaginative Stories

      A Toy Adventure

      Comparing Characters

      The Story’s End

      Chapter 10 Word Games

      Magnetic Words

      Color Book of Words

      Rainbow Words

      Scrabble® Words

      Making Real and Silly Words

      Letter Stepping

      Alphabet Sentences

      Making Up Sentences

      What Can I Do With __________?

      Comprehension Game

      Pick a Word

      Comparing Art and Words

      Song Title Words

      A Poem for Me

      Word Listening

      Spelling Puzzles

      Puzzle Words

      Sorry

      Acting Out Words

      Photograph Words

      Word for the Day

      The Newspaper Game

      Word Family Game

      What’s the Word?

      What’s the Object?

      Sound Walk

      Nursery Rhyme Words

      What Can You Tell Me?

      Word Rhythms

      Label Matching

      Familiar Words

      Chapter 11 Writing Games

      Sand Writing

      Disappearing Letters

      Making Letters

      Flashlight Letters

      Tissue Paper Tracing

      Making Cereal and Cracker Letters

      Ways to Write Names

      Crayon Resist Names

      Name Practice

      Three Pigs List

      Menu Writing

      Happy Birthday

      The Calendar Game

      Appendix

      Glossary

      About Books

      Reading Milestones

      Bibliography

      Acknowledgments

      With my sincerest appreciation, I want to thank Larry Rood and Leah Curry-Rood of Gryphon House and Kathy Charner, my editor, for all of the support, interest, encouragement, and caring that they give to me. We all benefit in the name of young children.

      Dedication

      I dedicate this book to the alphabet.

      Copyright

      © 2005 Jackie Silberg

      Published by Gryphon House, Inc.

      10726 Tucker Street, Beltsville, MD 20705

      800.638.0928; 301.595.9500; 301.595.0051 (fax)

      Visit us on the web at www.gryphonhouse.com

      The author of this book, Jackie Silberg, is an acclaimed speaker, teacher, and trainer on early childhood development and music. You can arrange to have her speak, present, train, or entertain by contacting her through Gryphon House, PO Box 207, Beltsville, MD 20704-0207, 800.638.0928, or at jsilberg@interserv.com.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Printed in the United States of America. Every effort has been made to locate copyright and permission information.

      Illustrations: Deborah C. Wright

      Cover Photograph: Straight Shots

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication

      Silberg, Jackie, Date

      Reading games / by Jackie Silberg.

      p. cm.

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 978-0-87659-243-4

      1. Reading games. 2. Reading (Early childhood) I. Title.

      LB1029.G3S55 2005

      372.41--dc22

      2004024125

      Bulk purchase

      Gryphon House books are available for special premiums and sales promotions as well as for fund-raising use. Special editions or book excerpts also can be created to specification. For details, contact the Director of Marketing at Gryphon House.

      Disclaimer

      Gryphon House, Inc. and the author cannot be held responsible for damage, mishap, or injury incurred during the use of or because of activities in this book. Appropriate and reasonable caution and adult supervision of children involved in activities and corresponding to the age and capability of each child involved, is recommended at all times. Do not leave children unattended at any time. Observe safety and caution at all times.

      Introduction

      Learning to read: Everybody talks about it. Everybody thinks about it. Everyone has his or her own ideas about how to do it, what age to do it, what to do first. It’s maddening! It’s opinionated! It’s frustrating! It’s confusing! So how do you teach children to read? It’s really quite simple: You teach children to read by talking, reading, and writing together every day, by making books a part of each day.

      The list of what to do to teach children to read goes on and on—sing songs, learn rhymes, say poems, find words in an encyclopedia, tell stories, listen to what children say, make books together by writing the words and asking the children to draw pictures, and lots more, including the ideas in this book. Pick games from this book to build the important skills necessary for children to become successful readers. And when you do the games with children, they will discover that learning to read is fun and exciting.

      What greater gift can you give a child than the gift of reading!

      ­How to Use This Book

      Each chapter in this book is full of fun and developmentally appropriate games that are necessary for learning to read, including games of alliteration, oral blending, writing, alphabet recognition, letter sounds, word play, and rhyming. These games will develop a love for language and joy of reading.

      One way to use the games in this book is to pick and choose from each chapter. This strategy works because the games complement each other. For example, in the alliteration chapter when making up sentences with words that start with the same letter, go to the alphabet recognition chapter and follow up with a game uses that same letter again. Because each chapter contains a variety of games, they will suit the needs and abilities of many children.

      Another way to use the material in the book is to concentrate on one chapter at a time. If this is the case, start with the alphabet chapter and follow it with the letter sounds chapter. Rhyming would come next, followed by names and oral blending. The rest of the chapters can really follow in any order that you choose. This order works best because children first need to recognize the letters of the alphabet by sight and sound in order to hear the phonemes. When they know the sounds, they will be able to hear rhymes and parts of words (segments).

      Take your time with these games; repeat games that you and your beginning readers find enjoyable and successful.

      The children of today are our future. They need to be highly literate and have critical thinking skills in order to compete in the 21st century.

      About Reading and the Brain

      Scientific research has shown the importance of touching, talking, smiling, and reading in the physical growth of a child’s brain in the first few years of life. This exposure creates neural circuits and connections in the brain that are the basis for language and learning.

      A dyslexia research team at Yale University’s Center for Learning and Attention lead by Dr. Sally Shaywitz found a window on the brain through an imaging technique called functional MRI. These medical scientists identified parts of the brain used in reading. By observing the flow of oxygen-rich

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