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Multi Sensory Activities

GC 3. Reading and viewing a range of texts by means of different strategies in a variety of contexts

30+ Kinesthetic Activities for Teaching

Reading

• 1. Sidewalk Chalk and Sight Words {learn letters or add a hopscotch game like Mom to Post Lil Divas}

• 2. ABC Puzzle Racing• 3. Spelling with LEGO Letters• 4. Sensory Play/Bins- hide objects that start with the same letter,

magnetic letters, sight words, or phonics patterns in there {1+1+1=1}

• 5. Counting syllables or phonemes with objects {snap together Unifix cubes, links, or LEGOS for each one you hear}; Elkonin boxes or Learning Resources Sound Boxes are great, too!  You can even clap, stomp, race, or integrate toys into phonemic awareness. {I Can Teach My Child}

• 6. Sight Word Twister {Mom 2 Post Lil Divas}• 7. Write letters and words in shaving cream, oatmeal, or cornmeal or

look at this great list of 9 multi-sensory ideas for teaching sight words {Make, Take & Teach}

• 8. Sandpaper letters {Living Montessori Now}• 9. Manipulating Words with magnetic letters, bottle caps, letter tiles,

stamps, or puffy paint {123 Homeschool 4 Me}• 10. Glue a Bumpy Alphabet {Education.com}

• 11. Roll It with Education Cubes-We use ours A LOT.  This is a purchase I would highlyrecommend!  They work not only for literacy, but for other content areas as well. {I also have a FREE 68-page “Roll-A” activity pack for all Facebook likers!}

• 12. Scavenger Hunts to spell words or find letters• 13. Physically matching or sorting words / pictures on a

pocket chart or work surface of some kind• 14. Stack the Blocks- for each rhyming word your child can

say {or words with a particular phonics pattern, such as long a}, stack the tower one block higher.  How high can the tower be built? {from Phonics Instructional Activities pg. 66, The Struggling Reader}

• 15. Magnetic Letter Builders {Confessions of a Homeschooler}

• 16. Integrate the Nerf gun {shoot letters or words on a dry erase board}

• 17. Integrate water {Hands on as We Grow},  get in the TUB {Bath Activities for Kids}, or wash those letters! {Little Bins for Little Hands}

• 18. Alphabet Bowling {Toddler Approved}• 19. Create motions to go with the letter sounds or phonics sounds

{such as pinching or gently slapping your hand for the “ow/ou” sound}

• 20. Learn the letters in sign language and sign the letters in words• 21. Race to spell words {Playdough to Plato}• 22. Promote Early Literacy with ACTION- there are a TON of ideas

here that can totally be adapted for other literacy skills {Playdough to Plato}

• 23. Act out the story after listening to it• 24. Facial Expression- re-read passages, select a few sentences to

ask the read to re-read, using various facial expressions as they do {Fluency Instructional Activities pg. 63, The Struggling Reader}

• 25. Use puppets to re-enact the story or a scene. This can also be a GREAT way to build fluency, especially if the child needs to practice his lines for it to be performed for others. {Comprehension Instructional Activities pg. 15, The Struggling Reader}

• 26. Create a comprehension ball with a beach ball {super easy AND cheap}.  Throw it to your child and have your child answer the questions one at a time on the ball.

• 27.  Rainy day?  Use your stairs to move it and learn, too!  Letters can be replaced with various phonograms {such as ai or ea}, sight words, or comprehension questions.

• 28. Clipping rhyming words, syllables, phonics sounds, or sight words with clothespins {great for fine motor as well}

• 29. Write- When kids write {especially when they are allowed to invent their spellings}, they can “feel” the letters in their mouths, helping to stretch their phonemic awareness

• 30. Swat the Word {or sound, letter, etc.}  Write words or letters on a piece of chart paper or dry erase board.  Give your child a {clean} fly swattter. Say the sound/word and have them swat the word.

• 31. Spell words out of playdough; stamp words {with cookie cutters} in playdough

 

30 Auditory Activities for Teaching Reading• . Lively Letters- a great program for teaching letter sounds, based strongly on auditory activities, such as songs and rhymes

• 2. Create and use your own sound tubs.  The School Supply Addict has a great tutorial on DIY sound tubs.

• 3. Pull out toys and manipulatives for the letters you’re studying {visit my 5-day serieson this one for ideas for each letter of the alphabet}.  Over emphasize the initial letter sounds as you’re playing together, like this /m/-/m/-marshmallows.

• 4. Play a game while cleaning up toys: Can you pick up all the toys that start with /l/ {make the sound of l}?

• 5. Songs, especially rhyming songs- We love Dr. Jean, Steve & Greg, and Go Fish at our house.  It’s also great when you can find books that correspond with songs you’re singing.  Growing Book by Book shares even more. Debbie also has some great resources on her blog with rhyming and using music as a motivator as it connects with reading.

• 6. Integrate rhyme into your routine• 7. Read poetry and rhyming books- there are TONS of rhyming books out

there. Listening to the fun rhymes helps develop that ear to hear and eventually produce rhymes.

• 8. Create songs together based off of tunes you already know• 9. Play phonemic awareness games- I love Buggy and Buddy’s post.  It’s full of

ideas!• 10. Picture sorting {no text included} with letters or phonics sounds, you can try

thisWhich Sound Doesn’t Belong? Game• 11. Listening for onomatopoeias {or create your own onomatopoeia story together

• 12. Tongue Twisters- reading tongue twisters or books that focus on alliteration

• 13. Get out the drum {or a pot and pan} and pound syllables and phonemes as you count them in words

• 14. Writing- allow invented spelling.  When a child invents a spelling, he s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-s out the word and listens to as many sounds as he can hear and writes them down, somotorcycle may look like MOTRSIKL

• 15. Musical Sight Words {Mom 2 Posh Lil Divas}• 16. Spell sight words through song, like the sight

words from Reading The Alphabet• 17. I Spy Sight Word Game- although this game is

quite visual, the child needs to LISTEN to the clues to guess the right word

• 18. Sight Word Guess Who? is another game that requires the auditory intake to figure out the word {free printable included}

• 19. Go on a sound walk {Bug and Buddy}• 20. Practice the Art of Storytelling {Simple Kids}• 21. Listen to books on CD or the iPod• 22. Read aloud are great for so many reasons.

Just one of the benefits is you’re helping your child develop listening comprehension.  Instead of getting tied up in decoding and saying all the words correctly, he can simply focus on comprehension.

• 23. Model reading with expression {how did it really sound when the character said that?}, let your child echo read after you

• 24. Focus on the punctuation when reading, as it will help you know how to read it with expression.

• 25. Play punctuation games, for reading with expression, based on the punctuation; like the Tic-Tac-Toe game mentioned in The Struggling Reader’s Fluency Instruction book, pg. 67

• 26. Choose texts with lots of dialogue.  We LOVE Yo! Yes? by Chris Raschka as well as Mo Willems’ Pigeon books and Elephant and Piggie books.  Kids can act out the voices of the different characters or listen as you read them aloud.

• 27. Repeated Readings are a great way to build fluency {I share more ideas about repeated readings in this post}

• 28. Record your child’s repeated readings and let rate his fluency, based off of a scale from 0-3, with 3 being very fluent

• 29. Read a text in different voices {Can you read in your daddy voice, baby voice, sad voice, silly voice, etc.?}

• 30. Limit auditory distractions- find a quite place to read, as loud noises and distractions take away from good comprehension

30+ Visual Activities for Teaching Reading

• 1. Label your house- use the labels to help them with reading and writing, we use our labels A LOT {I think I’m actually going to be adding Spanish labels under each label next year as well}

• 2. DVDs- some of our favorites are LeapFrog, books related to movies {like Charlotte’s Web},

• 3. Youtube- here’s a link to some of our favorite ABC youtube links

• 4. TV Shows- we mainly stick with PBS and love Sesame Street, Word World and SuperWhy.  Older kids {through 2nd grade} may enjoy Between the Lions, Word Girl, and Electric Company.  All these shows teach reading/phonics concepts.

• 5. Reading apps- you can visit my app Pinterest board to find some

• 6. Display and use a word wall• 7. Use a spelling dictionary {The Measured Mom}

• 8. Jot down and pre-teach words before reading that you know may be tricky for your child to read

• 9. Play classic games such as dominoes {No Time for Flashcards}, Go Fish {Teach Mama} or Memory Match

• 10. Start with Word Families- word families are a great way to help kids SEE the shared pattern between words

• 11. Word Study- If you’ve followed me long enough, you know I’m head over heels in love with word study.  Kids can SEE the relationship between words and their patterns {you can find more word study/phonics activities on my Pinterest board}

• 12. Sight Words You Can See- what a great sight word program for kids that are visual

• 13. Sight Word Racing Game• 14. Word-Wac-Woe {like Tic-Tac-Toe}• 15. DIY Sight Word Mosaics

• 6. Ready-Made Color by Sight Word- I have one for lessons 15-31 of Reading the Alphabet.

• 17. Secret Sight Word Game- great for those sight words that are visually similar and confusing for kids

• 18.  Sight word puzzles- You can find sight word puzzles- BOB Book Set 2 Printables,Reading the Easy Way, and Reading the Alphabet

• 19. Making Words• 20. Flip a Word {like the ones from my Set 1 BOB Book printables}, Spin a Word

 {The Measured Mom}, Roll a Word, Slide a Word {I Can Teach My Child}, or Build a Word{Make, Take & Teach}; just make it visual! 

• 21. Rainbow Write words• 22. Take a picture walk through the book- great for supporting comprehension and

predicting {Teach Mama}• 23. Use pictures to create stories or make predictions, which is similar to a picture

walk, but can be done with a single picture from a magazine or painting {Stay at Home Educator}

• 24. Encourage learning about environmental print for those younger kids {Pre-K Pages}

• 25.  Point out letters and words in real life situations- Point out the T in Target or help your child figure out the meaning of a word from its context when watching a show on TV

• 26. Use Big books- We have a good collection of big books.  My pre-kinders especially love to look through them.

• 27. Give them visual aids, like this list of question words posted in my homeschool room or a chart to help them read directions {free printable}

• 28. Use graphic organizers to help with comprehension and retelling

• 29. Use anchor charts {My Comprehension Pinterest board is full of these!}

• 30. Make sure they can see the pictures when reading a book• 31. Read poetry together, help them make mental images in

their heads {Teach Mama}• 32. Have them create a comic strip as they listen along to the

book being read aloud {Comprehension Instructional Activities, The Struggling Reader}

• 33. Teach concepts about books {front, back, etc.}• 34. Teach them concepts about print {try this list from A to Z}• 35. Use a craft to teach them concepts of print {Enchanted

Homeschooling Mom}• 36. Concept of print/word- help them rebuild sentences from a

text, pointing to the textas they read

20+ Tasty and “Smelly” Activities

• 1. Learn your name {or sight words} with chocolate pudding {Learn to Play At Home}

• 2. Eat your sight words {School Time Snippets}• 3. Our grocery store has started carrying cheese

crackers with Scrabble letters on them. We use them to spell names, sight words, and phonics patterns.  Then we eat them!

• 4. Learning the Alphabet Sensory Style {Growing a Jeweled Rose}

• 5. Spell words with pretzels.  The bigger ones are easier to break apart and they’re great because they have curvy and straight parts; perfect for building any letter!

• 6. We like to use Cheez Whiz to spell words on crackers.  It is required that the words are read before they are eaten.  You can also have your child spell various words, one letter on each cracker.  I will say that this one is harder for my younger children to do.  ALuv {age 7.5} is the only one who can handle this activity without assistance.

• 7. When reading about a particular subject, find food that goes along with theme and eat it together {Crystal’s Tiny Treasures}

• 8. Using scented candles to feel and smell words.  Make sure that mama {or dad} is the only one preparing this activity with the lit candles! {Laughing Kids Learn}

• 9. Find food that starts with particular letters of the alphabet you’re working.  For example: p is for pineapple, pumpkins, pepperoni pizza, or pancakes

• 10. Use smelly markers {Many Little Blessings}• 11. Spell words with scented playdough {Growing a Jeweled

Rose}• 12. Add scented bubble bath to the bubble bath letter pit {Bath

Activities for Kids}

• 13. Write words in whip cream or chocolate pudding- Smear some on a cookie sheet and spell away.  Be sure to lick fingers afterwards!

• 14. Use glue to make letters or create words and sprinkle on dry jello mix for a yummy smell.

• 15. Smash your sight words.  I LOVE this one as it incorporates all of the senses, especially if you put pudding or whip cream under the sight words!  The words could be replaced with word family words or words that share a common pattern. The pumpkins can also be traded out for other themes. So many adaptations! {School Time Snippets}

• 16. Candy Comprehension- This one works particularly well for those kids who struggle with thinking about what they’re reading.  Ask them to read a section of text, then suck on a chocolate candy {or another kind of candy that melts quickly}.  While the candy is melting, they should take that time to think about what they just read before moving on to read more.

• 17. Make a scratch and sniff book with stickers- This terrific idea came from a FB reader. She says, “I let them pick a few colors of construction paper that I cut down into smaller pieces.  I staple them together to make a spine, but if you don’t like staples with kids, you can poke some holes and lace the pages together with yarn or ribbon (and you may want to use something a little sturdier like cardstock that can withstand the tugging at the strings when pages are turned).  I ordered a unit of scratch-n-sniff stickers from a website called www.everythingsmells.com.”

• 18. Get outside!  Reading {and writing} outside uses so many of our senses!

• 19. Go on a field trip.  Smell the goats.  Taste the honey from the hive.  Field trips have an added bonus: They make learning tangible, which increases reading comprehension because it builds prior knowledge.

• 20. Cooking together incorporates ALL of the senses and is great for integrating reading. We did a writing/reading lesson this year using popcorn and the five senses.

• 21. Planning learning around units and themes helps to integrate all kinds of learning about the same topic.  This creates a natural atmosphere for multi-sensory learning.

GC 4. Writing a range of texts adapted to a variety of

communicative purposes

Multi Sensory Activities to teach Writing• 1. Salt on a lightbox – from Train Up a Child• 2. Painting play dough letters – from Train Up a Child• 3. Salt tray writing – from Rainy Day Mum• 4. DIY Salt tray and alphabet cards – from This

Mumma’s Life• 5. Q-tips on a paint bag – from Scribble Doodle and

Draw• 6. Shaving cream – from Scribble Doodle and Draw• 7. Shaving cream on a window – from Putti’s World• 8. Writing on a craft canvas – from Make, Take & Teach• 9. A stick and some dirt – from The Golden Gleam• 10. Inexpensive and DIY sandpaper letters – from

Living Montessori Now

• 11. Stamping letters - from Creative Playhouse

• 12. Cornflour paste writing – from Blog Me Mom

• 13. Chocolate sensory salt tray – from Growing a Jeweled Rose

• 14. Writing in craft sand – from Make, Take & Teach

• 15. Resistive writing with non-hardening clay, short pencil, and beads – from Pinterest

• Writing with multisensory materials:• 16. DIY Montessori-inspired sensory letters –

from Train Up a Child• 17. Toothpicks and upcycled styrofoam trays

 – from Train Up a Child• 18. 

Building letters with blocks, bodies, shadows, and fabric letters – from Royal Baloo and Logi Bear Too

• 19. Vanishing words – from Nurture Store• 20. Finger-pen-paint – from Nurture Store• 21. Writing with glue and puffy paint – from Make, Take & Teach• 22. Building letters with pencils and pipe cleaners – from

Nurture Store• 23. Building letters with play dough – from Nurture Store• 24. Building shapes and letters with Wiki Stix – from Scribble

Doodle and Draw• 25. Building letters with yarn – from Scribble Doodle and Draw• 26. Building shapes and letters with Q-tips – from Putti’s World• 27. 

Building shapes, letters, and pictures with colored craft sticks – from Putti’s World

• 28. Building shapes and letters with blocks – from Putti’s World• 29. Building shapes and letters with crayons – from Putti’s World• 30. 

Sensory letter journal with glue, sprinkles, tea leaves, coffee grounds, dirt, garlic, and more – from Growing a Jeweled Rose