One game, so many ways to review!
Mix and match or focus on one skill at a time.
Materials: Jenga, marker
- Based on your child’s age and ability, determine which skills they should be working on
- Write the review skill or skills on the end of each Jenga block *Children can assist by naming the letters in the alphabet as you write them, counting as you write the numbers, brainstorming shapes for you to write, etc.
- Set up the Jenga game *Children can assist by counting three blocks at a time (one to one correspondence), identifying what shape the blocks are (rectangles), as well as what shape they create when three blocks are set next to one another (square), and stack them while alternating directions for each row
- Play Jenga: for your child’s turn have them name what is on the block they chose (both sides). For anyone else’s turn have the child confirm that the answers given are correct (i.e. Adult: I chose the word ‘said’ and ‘the’. Are those right? Child: Yes!). Other players can also pretend to struggle with an answer so the child can assist in order to give extra practice and boost their confidence by feeling like an expert (i.e. Adult: Hmm. I’m not sure if ‘cat’ starts with a -c or -k. Can you help me?)
5 year olds:
Literacy:
-review upper and lowercase letters
-identify the letter then produce the letter sound
-identify the letter, produce the sound and come up with a word that starts with that letter
-identify the beginning and/or final sound in the word written (i.e. in the word dog, -d is the initial sound and -g is the final sound)
-read the sight word
-read the CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) word (i.e. cat, tip, sob, etc.)
-read the CVC word, cover it, then spell it
-read the word family word then come up with additional words that match the family (i.e. the child reads cat, identifies it is the at word family, then comes up with bat, hat, sat, rat, mat, etc.)
-read the blends and digraphs (blends are two letters with two separate sounds, such as -br, -cl, -sp, and digraphs are two letters making one new sound, such as -ch, -sh, -th)
-come up with a word that rhymes with the word written
