Familiar learning activities are often helpful. Children will learn more quickly if you are reinforcing the same words at home as they are working on in school.
Ask your child's teacher what strategies are being used in school, and try those at home as well.Ask your child's teacher what sight words are being learned, and work on those at home as well.Having your child help make the cards can be a learning experience as well. Puffy paint, glue, rice grains, sand, and pipe cleaners are good choices for textured cards. Create multisensory sight word cards with the words written in a textured material so that children can feel the words and read them at the same time.If the sight word is an object you have around the house, such as a chair, make a card and attach it to the object in the house.Point out sight words when you see them as you read together.Create two sets of cards with the words on them, and play matching games like Go Fish or simply mix up the cards and have the child pick out the matching cards to pair up.Five to ten words may be a good start for children with learning disabilities in reading or dyslexia. Start with a small number of sight words and focus on them for a week.
