VTech Phonics Reading Center Parent's Manual To Using page 28

Fundamentals of reading learning toy

PHONICS READING CENTER

ACTIVITY 12 - ALPHABETIZING

How Can You Help?

• Think of a particular category that your child is interested in. Together

brainstorm about five words related to that category. Write them down

in random order. (To make it easier, be sure each word begins with a

different letter.) Next, have your child put them in alphabetical order.

It may be very helpful if your child refers to the learning toy to see the

correct order of the letters.

• If your child is having difficulty with this activity, remind him to only

look at the first letter when alphabetizing words. (If two words begin

with the same letter, you must look to the second letter in each word.

This is an advanced alphabetizing skill. Your child should not be ex-

pected to know this.)

• When you are reading to your child, allow him or her to choose three or

four words that he or she would like to put in alphabetical order.

ACTVITY 13 - PUZZLE PICTURES

This activity introduces your child to compound words. Your child will learn

how to combine two words together to make a new word. He or she will look

at pictures on the LCD screen. By pressing the object buttons that match

the pictures in the correct order, your child will create a compound word.

Learning Benefits for Your Child -

Learning Benefits for Your Child - The Puzzle Pictures activity is designed

Learning Benefits for Your Child -

to help your child increase his or her vocabulary by introducing new words.

Your child will recognize that a compound word is made up of two words.

When the two words are joined together, a new word is made that has a

new meaning.

ACTIVITY INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Press the Puzzle Pictures

Puzzle Pictures

Puzzle Pictures touch sensitive ac-

Puzzle Pictures

tivity button and you will hear a short tune

followed by "Let's learn to make compound

words."

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ACTIVITIES