Word Families and Rhyming Words
The grade 1 students have been learning about word families and rhyming words. Learning about them helps improve students reading ability and awareness. Here are some examples of how it helps them:

• It helps them break down words into small parts and recognize those smaller parts of larger words.
  
• It teaches them to recognize patterns and structure of words in both spoken and written words.
  
• It helps students to make predictions while learning words and learn crucial decoding skills.
  At home IDEAS
  Rhyming is a fun activity that the whole family can do. Here are a few
  

ideas that you can incorporate into your evening.

1. Read nursery Rhymes (free online http://nursery.zelo.com )
   
2. Makeupnurseryrhymesorpoemswithrhymingwords
   
3. Play a game, Rhyme that Object- one person chooses an
   object and the others have to come up with words that rhyme
   with it.
   
4. Online games – parents and kids can play together some
   online games (http://pbskids.org/games/rhyming/) , (http://pbskids.org/wordworld/characters/game_frm.html)
   

Word families and rhyming are a FUN and EASY way to help increase your child’s reading skills.