Supplemental Resources

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Supplemental Resources for Learning

Here are some resources that are good for building reading and communication skills.
There are toy recommendations at the bottom of the page.

How do you use supplemental resources with your curriculum?

If you are working on reading, then you can choose words out of your text books and spend 15 to 20 minutes using these resources.

For example:
The Build a Word Program by Remedial Publications this program has flash cards and blocks. The flash are design with a picture a basic word then a sentence at the bottom. On the back of the flash cards there are 4 more words that go with what you are working on. So if you were building a word wall this would help reinforce the word wall.

One suggestion if this was all that you wanted to buy for language would be to make more words. Go through the sentences at the bottom of the card and you can either type them on a computer or print them. Then you can categorize your words and keep them in separate bags. Such as articles (A, AN, The, a, an, the), verbs (actions, helping, and being), nouns, adjectives, adverbs, punctuation, pronouns and interjections. So you would need basically 8 bags.

Remember to let your imagination do some work. You can expand the standard sentence and start making your own. You can color code your cards for example, blue for nouns, red for verbs, yellow for adjectives, purple for adverbs, orange for articles, etc.

There are some products out there where they have done something like this. For example, Fun to Learn, Sentences by Children's Publishing is laid out in a manner like this. I am sure that you can find more if you go to a school supply store.

Depending on the time you want to invest you can do anything to create an fun, inviting and relationship building experience.

If you have something that you have used and love, please email with what it is and how you used it.

Products of the week.

Learning is important, but what makes learning fun is the communication that you build with your child. Without building communication skills you have a hard time knowing what they understand, how they feel, etc. Here are a few suggestions to build communication through play.

There are always at least 3 questions that you can get from a toy or a flash card.
Basic questions:
1. What is it?
2. What color?
3. What does it do?
4. How does it sound?
5. How does it move?
6.Can you move like this (animal, car,cards with action words--this also promotes imitation)

The important thing in asking questions while playing to not to get the answer quickly (at the start), but to build eye contact, joint play, taking turns, bonding with your child, creating a safety net so they might try imaginative play.
For example:
Use a book as a hat. And say "Oh! look at my hat, isn't it pretty?" Be dramatic, animate (don't scare your child) emphasize your expression.

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Remember, it is not about what they can or cannot do. It is about having fun and remembering they are connecting with you.

Most time you will get more communication through play, dance and sensory time.

There are some good resources on these sites
Shop StuffKidsLike.com
Melissa and Doug Flagship Store

Shop BoardGamesUSA.com
Childrens's Arts & Crafts

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