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By Catie Gosselin of WomanLinks.com
Materials : large chalk or white
board (or paper and pen work too!)
Skills : visual discrimination,
reading readiness, fine motor, logic
Write up a word list appropriate
to your child's reading ability. Using the vertical
and horizontal, create an array of letters hiding
words from your list within. As your child locates
words, ask them circle the words and cross them off
the word list. Prompt your child to create a
strategy for solving the puzzle. 'You have looked
across all the rows for this word. What else can you
try to find it?'
For beginner readers, start simple
with a 4 line by 4 line array. Also, beginners do
best locating words hidden left to right, then top
to bottom. As your child's ability warrants,
increase the size of your arrays, and hide words
right to left, bottom to top as well as diagonally.
I'm not sure how this will come
out in email, but here is a very basic example:
Word List :
CAT CAR
TOP MAT
Puzzle :
T C A T
M A T O
M R T P
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