It’s more fun to play when there are 2 players or more. So if your child has no other children to play with, why don’t you join in the game. Each person takes a turn. The one who finds a match gets to go again.

Tips

• If your children are very young or don’t have a very long attention span, don’t use too many words. Maybe start with 8-10 cards and then slowly increase when they get better.
• If you sign up for my free e-course “Teaching Your Children To Read and Spell”, you will receive a teaching toolkit which includes a list of  Dolch words (high frequency words).  You don’t have to go to the internet to do anymore searching. I’ve got it ready for you to print out.

Just fill in the form below to receive the free e-course that will run for 8 days.

You don’t need to be a genius to teach your kids to read and spell. You also don’t need to spend tons of money to get certified to teach. The first step in teaching your kids to read and spell is to decide that you  are going to put in that effort. The next step is to learn what your kids need to know and have to become good readers and spellers.

If you read aloud to your children everyday (even babies), you are already preparing them to learn how to read. Nursery rhymes also plays a part in your child’s literacy. Building a home library and surrounding them with reading materials helps to build their desire to read, especially if the books, magazines or comics are about things that interest them.

They are many things you can do informally and formally to teach your children to read and spell.

If you desire to teach your children to read and spell, but don’t know where to start, click this link and sign up for my e-course:
How To Teach Your Children To Read and Spell

I’ve even put together some charts and a checklist to make your work easier. Click the link to find out more.

I came across a cool website that allows you to create very artistic word clouds like the one I did above. You can either type in your own words or type in the website that you want them to pull the words from.

So, why do I think this is cool? I figured that it can be used as an interesting education tool.

1. You can use it to introduce new words to your children (build up their vocabulary). For example, if you are teaching your children about Asia, you could create a word cloud on the countries in Asia plus whatever words related to Asia e.g. warm climate, oriental, noodles, spices, beautiful beaches, rice
2. After teaching your children about a certain topic, you can check their understanding by asking them to create a word cloud of words related to the topic. For example, after teaching my son about global warming, I asked him to list all the words that come to his mind related to that theme.

There is a button called “randomize” and every time you click it, it will give you a different word cloud (different style, design, colors, font). You can then print it out for your child.

Try it out. It’s pretty cool. Plus, it will indirectly help your children’s creativity.