Get Ready to Read! Group Activity Cards Index

Help support you child's early reading with these group activities. These activities will help develop early reading skills, like recognizing print, learning to write, and understanding words.

Print Knowledge

Beginning
My Favorite Book	My Name Has Letters
Making a Menu	The Reading Puppet
Making Progress
Name Memory	Fishing for Letters
Find a Word	Word Puzzles
Ready to Read
Word Jump	My Word Box
Letter Memory	Pick a Letter

Emergent Writing

Beginning
Walk on a Letter	Draw to the Music
Tell About Your Picture	Draw Your Day
I Can Write Letters
Making Progress
Clay Letters	Build Your Name
Trace Your Name	Sequence Story
Copy a Card
Ready to Read
Send a Message	Guess What's Inside

Linguistic Awareness

Beginning
How Many Words?	Match that Sound
Be an Expert Listener	Find the Rhymes
Making Progress
Jump for a Rhyme	Mystery Sound
Rhyme-Out	Find the Compound Words
Be a Word
Ready to Read
Stretched-out Story	First Sound Sort
What Word is Left?

Get Ready to Read! Overview and Directions

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This activity is provided by the National Center for Learning Disabilities, Inc. Get Ready to Read!, a program of the National Center for Learning Disabilities, Inc, aims for all preschool children to have the skills they need to learn to read when they enter school. For more information go to Get Ready to Ready!