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February 2, 2016 | 4 Comments

Syllable Matching Tray – Kindergarten Reading Activity

SYLLABLE COUNTING ACTIVITY FOR KIDSI have gotten a lot of questions over the years about what’s the MOST important exercise for teaching a child to read. There really isn’t ONE, reading is a whole buffet of things that come together. If there is one thing for parents to do it is to read to your kids. After that, there are many other little things to work on in fun ways. In my book Raising A Rock-Star Reader, my co-author and I share 75 things parents can do to help support their child. Today’s post is another bite-sized activity that will help your child on their journey to reading. Breaking up words and practicing syllable matching is important because it helps children break apart words. This will ultimately help them with writing, especially invented spelling and decoding words.

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Gather your materials. I used a cheap cookie tray, some number magnets, and toy animals. I get asked a lot where I get toy animals from, and mine are really an odd collection, but I found this awesome huge collection online that could be very useful for a homeschool or classroom.syllable matching tray

Start by putting out the animals. I wasn’t even done before I had a helper.

set up for syllable matching tray

Have your helper clap out the syllables. Even if they do it in their heads correctly, get them to clap the words out for you too. Then place the number by the animal. syllable tray activity for kidsI have met more than one child who will “know” the number. But then they can’t actually break the word down which defeats the purpose. Have fun with this, be silly. When we got to rhino, we compared the syllables in rhino and rhinoceros.syllable matching tray for literacy centers

This is a quick little lesson – but quick little lessons add up!syllable matching reading activity for kids

For quicker little lessons like this check out my book; Raising A Rock-Star Reader. It is packed with fun ideas for families, book lists and pictures of some really cute kids reading (two of whom I gave birth to 😉 ).

raising a rock-star reader

Make sure to follow me on Facebook for other fun reading games like this syllable matching game!

Filed Under: Age: Kindergarten, Letters & Numbers, Reading, Reading Readiness, syllables | 4 Comments

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  1. Tammy says

    February 2, 2016 at 11:37 am

    Like this idea. Thanks for posting you idea for people

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