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School Reading Readiness Activities
My First Nursery Rhymes
Pictures by Bruce Whattey
This book contains different nursery rhymes for toddlers discovering language skills.
School Readiness Skills:
- Reading nursery rhymes to young children is the beginning of teaching them how to read.
- Children can identify the individual sound that combines to form words by listening to nursery rhymes.
Parent-Child Interaction:
- Parents read and recite nursery rhymes to your children at least three times a week
- Try clapping out syllables of nursery rhymes with your child.
- Sing nursery rhymes or silly songs while taking a family trip
Brown Bear, Brown Bear
By Bill Martin Jr.
This book teaches colors through rhymes
School Readiness Skills:
- Teaches different types of animals
- Teaches different colors
- The rhyming of the words from the book helps the child to hear how words sound similar in some ways and also helps them to hear the differences in the sounds of words
Parent-Child Interaction:
- Have your child draw their favorite animal from the story on a piece of construction paper (fine motor skills). Research the type of food his or her animal eats.
- Have parent and child mix primary colors to make new colors.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
By Eric Carle
This book is about a very little hungry caterpillar that eats all different types of food.
School Readiness Skills:
- Teaches the days of the week
- Show the different stages a caterpillar goes through before he becomes a butterfly
- Name different types of food
Parent-Child Interaction:
- Nutrient-Language Domain
- Have parent and child to select all the healthy snacks the caterpillar ate.
- Cutting-Fine Motor Skills
- Have child cut healthy snacks out of magazines and paste on construction paper. Remember, always use children safety scissors when cutting with young children.
- Art-Intellectual Development, Sensory Stimulation, Fine motor skills
- To make the caterpillar, you will need:
- Four small paper plates
- Five pipe cleaners
- Scissors
- Hole puncher
- Wiggle eyes
- Poster board
- Punch one hole in each plate. Holes should be punched on the edge of each plate. After cutting two pipe cleaners in half, use the four halves to attach paper plates. Antennas can be made from one pipe cleaner cut in half. Cut pieces of poster board for legs.
Your Amazing Senses
By Ron and Atie van der Meer
This book teaches children about their senses and how they are used in everyday activities.
School Readiness Skills:
- Teaches children importance of using their five senses and their relationship to the brain.
- Explores the different types of textures through touch.
- Teaches about the four taste buds
Parent-Child Interaction:
- Blind fold your child and let him or her smell different types of food to see if he or she can recognize the different smells.
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