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Reading at home : 4-5 years old : Playing word games
Simple word games will help with early literacy skills
Playing word matching games like Bingo, Snap, or Odd One Out will help your child to recognise common words and word patterns.
  • Play word matching games with a selection of early sight words, such as: my the and he she
  • Play word matching games with simple rhyming words, such as: cat, bat, hat; sit, fit, hit; pot, hot, got
  • Play word matching games with words that have the same first or last letter, such as: sun, sat, sea, sand; hen, sun, down, fan
  • Play games that match simple words and pictures, such as: cat, swing, house, ball.
 
We're going on a Word Hunt!

Word hunts are a fun way of encouraging children to recognise new words. Word hunts help children make links between spoken and written words, and to understand that print carries meaning.

Ask your child to find a word in a book, or write words on post-it notes and hide them around the house.