| 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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