Magnetic Letters

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*Use your refrigerator, cookie sheet, or magnetic board and purchase some magnetic letters to try these activities with your child.
* Take letters and spell a word family, such as ‘cat’.  Have your child replace the first letter of the word with another to form additional rhyming words, such as ‘bat, hat, sat, chat, etc.’  *Have child spell their name with magnetic letters on.  Then ask child to replace the beginning sound of their name with a new sound.  (For example , Tyler may change his name to Byler, Pyler, Myler, etc.)

For a greater challenge, ask students to replace the ending sound of their name with a new sound.  (For example, Tyler could become Tylen, Tylo, Tyleb.

*Write sentences or song lyrics on strips of paper or index cards.  Place magnetic tape to the backs and have your child sequence the sentences as they read and/ or sing.

*Practice your child’s spelling words using magnetic letters.

*The Making Words activity on this site, may be done with magnetic letters as well.