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Learn the letters of the alphabet

   Alphabet flash cards

      Learn to identify the lower case and upper case letters

      Play lower case and upper case memory

   Locate letters in print

   Play letter hide and seek

Identify the beginning sounds in words

   Play Alphabet Dominoes by matching the pictures the beginning 

      letters sound

      www.first-school.ws/t/domino_alphabet/p2_upper_dn.html

   Play I Spy- "I spy something that starts with 's'"

Break words down into individual sounds

   Play "What's the word"

      Say a word slowly by saying each individual sound- "What's the word, t-a-b-l? Yes, table!"

Learn the letter sounds

   Alphabet flash cards

      Say the sound of the letter

      Play Go Fish- " I have the letter that says d. Do you have the matching letter that says d?"

   Alphabet dice

      Using 3 dice templates, write consonants on two of the dice and vowels on the third. Roll the dice and say the sounds in consonant, vowel, consonant order. Attempt to blend the letter sounds together to form silly or nonsense words.

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Become familiar with sight words

   Practice reading words that are not decodable by sounds

      Visit http://gemini.es.brevard.k12.us/sheppard/reading/dolch/html

Read fluently

   Read simple sentences up to longer passages more than once. Practice attending to punctuation and phrasing.

   See how many words you can read in a minute. Try to read more words each time.