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Home Activities for Reading & Math

Reading Foundations Skills

  • First Sound Fluency (FSF)
    • Try these activities to help your child with First Sound Fluency:

      1. Sound Sorting: Gather a few small objects that start with different sounds (like a toy car, spoon, or apple). Say a sound (e.g., “s”) and ask your child to identify which objects start with that sound.

      2. Beginning Sound Hunt: While driving in the car, give your child a word and ask them to tell you the beginning sound (ex- DOG, “d")   

  • Letter Naming Fluency (LNF)
    • Support Letter Naming Fluency with these activities:

      1. Alphabet Race: Write the alphabet on index cards, mix them up and put them on the ground, and ask your child to locate various letters from the pile.

      2. Letter Memory Game: Create pairs of letter cards and play a memory matching game to help your child recognize and name letters faster. You could also play Go Fish with these same cards.

  • Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF: Breaking a spoken word into sounds)
    • Use these activities to assist with Phoneme Segmentation Fluency:

      1. Clapping Sounds: Say a word (like “cat”) and ask your child to clap once for each sound (c-a-t). This helps them break down the word into its individual sounds.

      2. Sound Boxes: Draw three boxes and give your child a simple word. Ask them to place a small object (like a coin or bead) in each box as they say each sound in the word. Once they have mastered three sounds, move to four sounds.

  • Nonsense Word Fluency - Correct Letter Sounds (NWF-CLS) and Whole WordsRead (NWF-WWR): The goal is to have students blend and read real as well asnonsense words
    • Here are activities to help your child with nonsense word fluency:

      1. Flash Cards: Create 2 sets of consonant flash cards, alphabet without the vowels (a, e, i, o, u).  Make another set of cards in a different color with the vowels on them.  Place the first consonant set on the left, the vowels in the middle, and the second consonant set on the left.  Flip one card at a time and have your child blend the 3 sounds.

  • Accuracy
    • Try these activities to help increase reading accuracy:

      1. Echo Reading: Read a sentence or page, and then have your child read the same section back to you. This models accurate reading.

      2. Tapping: Have your child read a book or passage. If they make a mistake, tap your finger or pen on the table to signal that they made a mistake and need to go back and fix it. Make sure they go back to the beginning of the sentence to reread with the word corrected.

  • Fluency
    • Encourage reading fluency with these activities:

      1. Repeated Reading: Have your child read the same short passage or book multiple times until they can read it smoothly and confidently.

      2. DYAD reading: Select a book that may be a little difficult for your child. Read in unison for 10 to 15 minutes. (DYAD Reading Explained)

      3. Have your child read out loud to you for at least 10 minutes of their reading time.

  • Retell
    • To improve retelling skills, consider these activities:

      1. Story Mapping: After reading, have your child draw or write about the main parts of the story (beginning, middle, and end).

      2. Who, What, Where, When, Why: Ask your child these questions after reading to help them remember and retell key story details.

      3. Have your child ask you questions about the story/passage they read.

  • MAZE (Vocabulary Comprehension)
    • These activities can support vocabulary and comprehension:

      1. Word Detective: As you read, pick out a few unfamiliar words and discuss their meaning based on the context of the sentence. Then check together to see whether they were correct.

      2. Summary Time: After reading a passage, ask your child to summarize it in their own words, focusing on main ideas and important details.

      3. Have your child write down the words they don’t fully understand while they are reading. After reading, go over these words and their meaning and reread the text.

Math Foundational Skills

  • Beginning Quantity Discrimination (BQD)
    • Try these activities to help your child with Beginning Quantity Discrimination:

      1. Comparing Groups: Use small objects (like blocks, legos or coins) and make two groups. Ask your child which group has “more” or “less” to practice comparing quantities.

      2. Counting Race: Place two stacks of objects (e.g., buttons or blocks) side-by-side. Ask your child to quickly identify which has a larger or smaller quantity.

      3. Roll a die and have them identify what number it represents. 

    • 4. Hold up numbers on your hands and then put it down, have them tell you how many fingers you were holding up.  If they are incorrect, have them count your fingers.

  • Number Identification Fluency (NIF)
    • Support Number Identification Fluency with these activities:

      1. Number Bingo: Use a hundreds chart and have your child cover numbers with beans as you call them out.  They get to call Bingo when they get 5 in a row anywhere on the chart. (We will have hundreds charts available at Parent Teacher Conferences)

      2. Flashcard Practice: Use flashcards with numbers, and ask your child to identify each number as quickly as possible.

  • Next Number Fluency (NNF)
    • Use these activities to assist with Next Number Fluency:

      1. Rote count: count with your child, starting at various numbers. (e.g. 34, 35, 36, 37…. Next time, 61, 62, 63)

      2. Counting On: Say a number (e.g., 5) and ask your child what comes next, then continue with other numbers for practice.

      3. Number Line Jumps: Create a number line (either drawn or with numbered paper) and ask your child to identify what comes after a given number.

  • Advanced Quantitative Discrimination (AQD)
    • Here are activities to help your child with Advanced Quantitative Discrimination:

      1. Number Models: Write a number down and ask your child to create a model using 10’s and 1’s.  (e.g. III …. Would be 34.  When they get good at this, you create 2  models and ask them to determine which model is bigger.)

      2. Comparing Large Numbers: Write pairs of two-digit numbers on paper, and ask your child which number is larger or smaller.

      3. More or Less Game: Using a deck of cards (remove face cards), draw two cards and ask your child which has the higher value. This helps your child understand and compare quantities.  You can make this harder by flipping two cards to create a double-digit number, to compare to 2 other cards.  Aces count as 1)

  • Missing Number Fluency (MNF)
    • Try these activities to help your child with Missing Number Fluency:

      1. Fill in the Blank: Write a sequence of numbers with a missing number (e.g., 4, __, 6), and ask your child to fill in the blank.

      2. Pattern Recognition: Create simple patterns of numbers with missing elements (e.g., 10, 12, __, 16) and ask your child to identify the missing number.  Do this with 2’s, 5’s and 10’s.

      3. Using the Hundreds Chart, cover a number and ask your child to determine what the covered number is. 

  • Computation 1 (First Grade Level) through Computation 3 (Third Grade Level)
  • Concepts & Applications 2 (Second Grade Level) through Concepts & Applications 3 (Third Grade Level)
    • Allow your children to practice time, money, measurement, and graphing skills. Talk with them about things in their world that apply to these skills.  (e.g. If it’s 4.30 and it takes us 16 minutes to get home, what time will we get home?


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