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Day 2: Auditory Activities for Teaching Reading

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Welcome back to 5 days of Multi-Sensory Activities for Teaching Reading, a part of iHomeschool Network’s
Summer Hopscotch!  If you’re just joining me, click HERE or on the image above to get caught up.  Today, I’m
featuring auditory activities to teach reading.  Of course, these activities are not solely auditory, but that’s a
good thing.  Remember, we want to integrate as many of the sense as we can to help this reading thing
“stick”.

30 AUDITORY ACTIVITIES FOR TEACHING READING

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1. Lively Letters– a great program for teaching letter sounds, based strongly on auditory activities, such as
songs and rhymes

2. Create and use your own sound tubs.  The School Supply Addict has a great tutorial on DIY sound tubs.

3. Pull out toys and manipulatives for the letters you’re studying {visit my 5-day series on this one for ideas
for each letter of the alphabet}.  Over emphasize the initial letter sounds as you’re playing together, like this
/m/-/m/-marshmallows.

4. Play a game while cleaning up toys: Can you pick up all the toys that start with /l/ {make the sound of l }?

5. Songs, especially rhyming songs- We love Dr. Jean, Steve & Greg, and Go Fish at our house.  It’s also great
when you can find books that correspond with songs you’re singing.  Growing Book by Book shares even
more. Debbie also has some great resources on her blog with rhyming and using music as a motivator as it
connects with reading.

6. Integrate rhyme into your routine

7. Read poetry and rhyming books- there are TONS of rhyming books out there.  Listening to the fun rhymes
helps develop that ear to hear and eventually produce rhymes.

8. Create songs together based off of tunes you already know

9. Play phonemic awareness games– I love Buggy and Buddy’s post.  It’s full of ideas!

10. Picture sorting {no text included} with letters or phonics sounds, you can try this Which Sound Doesn’t
Belong? Game

11. Listening for onomatopoeias {or create your own onomatopoeia story together}

12. Tongue Twisters- reading tongue twisters or books that focus on alliteration

13. Get out the drum {or a pot and pan} and pound syllables and phonemes as you count them in words

14. Writing- allow invented spelling.  When a child invents a spelling, he s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-s out the word and
listens to as many sounds as he can hear and writes them down, so motorcycle may look like MOTRSIKL

15. Musical Sight Words {Mom 2 Posh Lil Divas}

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16. Spell sight words through song, like the sight words from Reading The Alphabet
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17. I Spy Sight Word Game– although this game is quite visual, the child needs to LISTEN to the clues to
guess the right word

18. Sight Word Guess Who? is another game that requires the auditory intake to figure out the word {free
printable included}

19. Go on a sound walk {Bug and Buddy}

20. Practice the Art of Storytelling {Simple Kids}

21. Listen to books on CD or the iPod

22. Read alouds- Read alouds are great for SO many reasons. Just one of the benefits is you’re helping your
child develop listening comprehension.  Instead of getting tied up in decoding and saying all the words
correctly, he can simply focus on comprehension.

23. Model reading with expression {how did it really sound when the character said that?}, let your child
echo read after you

24. Focus on the punctuation when reading, as it will help you know how to read it with expression.

25. Play punctuation games, for reading with expression, based on the punctuation; like the Tic-Tac-Toe
game mentioned in The Struggling Reader’s Fluency Instruction book, pg. 67

Yo! Yes? by Chris Raschka- great

book for teaching fluency

26. Choose texts with lots of dialogue.  We LOVE Yo! Yes? by Chris Raschka as well as Mo Willems’ Pigeon
books and Elephant and Piggie books.  Kids can act out the voices of the different characters or listen as you
read them aloud.

27. Repeated Readings are a great way to build fluency {I share more ideas about repeated readings in this
post}

28. Record your child’s repeated readings and let rate his fluency, based off of a scale from 0-3, with 3 being
very fluent

29. Read a text in different voices {Can you read in your daddy voice, baby voice, sad voice, silly voice, etc.?}

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30. Limit auditory distractions- find a quite place to read, as loudOknoises and distractions take away from
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good comprehension
 

WHAT OTHER AUDITORY ACTIVITIES HAVE YOU USED TO TEACH YOUR

CHILD TO READ?  I’D LOVE TO HEAR THEM!

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KEWKEW says

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 A game we always play for each letter is, “I hear ‘mmmm’ when I say ‘mmmmoon’ ‘mmmmmommy’
‘mmmmouse’ ‘mmmmmailbox’ etc.
Looking forward to looking at some other ideas here. Thanks for sharing.

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