EXTENSION ACTIVITIES: Strategies in which you can help expand your child’s pre-reading skills.
Six Pre-Reading Skills: Are You My Mother?
1. Narrative Skills
- Go on-line and print pictures of a baby bird, mother bird, kitten, hen, dog and a cow. Cut out the animals, place the pictures throughout the room and invite your child to be the baby bird looking for his mother. Demonstrate by holding the baby bird picture and going over to one of the animal pictures like the dog and say, “Are you my mother?” Then say, “No I’m not your mommy.” Continue approaching each animal (saving mother bird for last). When you get to mother bird ask, “Are you my mother?” Then say, “Yes, I’m your mother” and give the baby bird a pretend hug. Next, give your child the baby bird and let them do the activity. You can also used stuffed animals you may have around the house for this activity.
2. Print Awareness
- Print the word "mother" in lower case and attach it to a picture of yourself. Place it on the wall or refrigerator and point to the word while saying, “Mother”.
- When you are at the grocery store, look for words on grocery items that begin with the letter "M”.
3. Letter Knowledge
- Put a small amount of sugar, salt, corn meal or flour on a table top and have your child practice writing the letter “M” in it.
4. Vocabulary
- When talking about this story, refer to the baby bird as a little white and brown baby bird with a yellow beak (extending adjectives) who was feeling so scared because he could not find his mother.
5. Print Motivation
- Keep it fun. Sit with the child while they are watching the story video.
6. Phonological Awareness
- Make up silly rhymes with some words from the book such as, “mother—brother—other”; “bird—third—word”; “ dog—log—fog”; “kitten—written—mitten”; “hen—ben—den”, and “cow—how—plow”.
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