Literacy Activities
English Language development is one of the most fundamental areas of learning for any child. It is the key to socialising with both peers and adults, being able to follow instruction, asking and answering questions and expressing ideas clearly. English language development through play and games is also the base upon which reading and writing are built.
Reading allows children to demonstrate comprehension skills of short, predictable printed texts on familiar topics using the context, grammar, word usage and phonics. As their skills improve, children will be able to recognise, discuss and respond to different kinds and purposes of various written and visual texts. They will also be able to explore and identify some language features of written and visual texts.
Being able to write allows children to produce simple texts that demonstrate their knowledge of both lower and upper case letters and sounds of the alphabet as they attempt to spell known words. More advanced children will also demonstrate an awareness of basic grammar and punctuation needed to construct sentences.
The following language games have been developed or adapted by ABC Kid to help your child develop their English language skills while both you and your child(ren) have great fun!
Games and Activities
Typewriting for Tots
Typewriting for Tots is designed to improve your little one’s spelling and writing skills along with their ability to identify the placement of letter on the QWERTY keyboard.
Lovely Letters
Lovely Letters is designed to improve your little one’s hand writing and understanding of communication via post.
What Is Missing From My Set
What Is Missing From My Set is designed to improve your little one’s observation skills, short term memory and language skills as they name objects they can not see.
Hide and Seek
Hide and Seek is designed to improve your little one’s language of location and distance.
Labels
Labels is designed to improve your little one’s spelling and reading skills on a daily basis.
Picture Unveiling
Picture Unveiling is designed to improve your little one’s reasoning skills while building their known word base with additional nouns.
Personal Dictionary
Personal Dictionary is designed to improve your little one’s letter recognition skills and initial phonemic awareness. It is a great activity to combine with other activities such as Letter of the Day.
Story Swap
Story Swap is designed to improve your little one’s imagination and story telling skills.
Picture Story
Picture Story is designed to improve your little one’s imagination and story telling skills.
Touch and Feel Box
Touch and Feel Box is designed to improve your little one’s sense of touch to identify objects. It is also good for developing descriptive language as your little one tries to explain to you exactly what they are feeling inside the box.
Memory
Memory is designed to improve your little one’s short term memory and concentration while teaching them the rules of turn taking in game play.
Twenty Questions
Twenty Questions is designed to improve your little one’s problem solving skills and develop language skills simultaneously. This game will also help to build your child’s memory and recall, challenging them to think beyond what they can see in their immediate surroundings.
Sit and Listen
Sit and Listen is a language building activity designed to improve your little one’s sense of hearing and language skills. It is designed to help your child discover just how much more is going on in the world around them. It will broaden your child’s awareness of the world they live in. It will also provide a few minutes of peace and quiet in what is probably a very noisy and hectic day. A discussion of the sounds you each hear will also assist in language development and an ability to articulate that which was heard.
Pirate Play
Pirate Play is designed to improve your little one’s imagination skills and story building abilities. It will also help them with map reading and following instructions via the treasure hunts. In addition there are elements of art and craft and visual arts via costume design and creation of props.
Mark My Mistake
Mark My Mistake is designed to improve your little one’s observation and language skills as they identify your mistakes and tell you how to correct them.
Shape Day
Shape Day is designed to improve your little one’s recall of a new shape including both its name or properties.
Follow the Leader
Follow the Leader is designed to improve your little one’s memory and concentration skills while providing an opportunity to use descriptive language of location.
Scategories
Scategories is designed to improve your little one’s initial letter identification skills and will also help them to develop their language and recall skills.
Letter of the Day
Letter of the Day is designed to improve your little one’s letter recognition skills and to reinforce letters with which they may be experiencing recall difficulties.
Sensory Lunch
Sensory Lunch is designed to improve your little one’s sense of taste and food related vocabulary such as sweet, savoury, smooth or chewy.
Clue Eye Spy
Clue Eye Spy is designed to improve your little one’s observation ability and problem solving skills. The game uses clues or object colour rather than letters to aid in the guessing of the mysterious object. Clue Eye Spy is simpler for younger children than the traditional version and is a great way to increase your child’s awareness of his/her surroundings.
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