purposeful play
Silly Erasing Reading Game
Literacy activity for kids
This fun reading game quickly became one of our favorites, both in my classroom and at home!
Silly Erasing is a wonderful way to have fun with word play and is a powerful way to strengthen your child’s ability to decode or “sound out” words.
This game also reinforces print awareness, letter recognition and phonological awareness.
Silly Erasing is a fantastic way to keep word play fun, silly and engaging!
Choose words that are familiar to your child, let your child choose words, choose silly words, choose nonsense words-the sky is the limit!
We used to do this in the bath tub with foam letters that stuck to the side of the tub. Such a great way to make bath time even more fun!
purpose
Reinforces phonological awareness
Fun with word play
Promotes sight reading
Strengthens decoding skills
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directions
Silly Erasing Reading Game
Spell a word and have your child sound it out
Remove or erase the first letter of the word
Ask your child to sound out the word again
Remove or erase the second letter
Ask your child to sound out the word again
Remove or erase the 3rd letter
Have your child sound out the word
Continue with this process until you get to the last letter of the word
This can also be done backwards-starting by removing the last letter first and sounding out the word.
Continue until you get to the first letter of the word.
