What are some ways you and your child might use the cards (and ways we’ll be using them here)?
- Introduce the Cards: Print one set of cards. Cut them out on the solid lines only. Then, let your child explore them, trying to make words and phrases.
- Use them as Traditional 3-Part Cards: Print a second set of cards. Cut this one on the solid and the dotted lines. Use the first set you cut as control cards for these.
- Play Card Games: Using two sets of cards cut only on the solid lines, play games such as Go Fish, Concentration and the Slap Game.
- The Hallway Game: Using cards cut on the solid and dotted lines, put the picture portion of the cards at one end of the hallway and hold the word portion of the cards at the other end. Have your child draw a word card and then crawl, jump, skip or run down the hallway to find its match. Then, play by drawing the picture cards.
- Build a Sentence: Using the word portion of the cards, have one person build sentences. Then, have the other find the matching picture portions of the cards or simply draw their own illustration of the sentence on a blank page or whiteboard.
Playing with the cards both independently and with others, your child is sure to master the words from the first few Bob Book stories, thus gaining confidence and fluency the next time the actual books are picked up to be read.
To print copies of these cards, simply click on the small graphics of them. A larger graphic should pop up on your computer which will print on a regular sized piece of paper. On the blank cards, you may wish to write your child's name and attach his or her picture.
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