These free Pre-K reading activities for October can help your child get an early start on reading!

Language Skills and Story Comprehension

It’s important for children to be able to hear a story, then retell you the events in order. This can be done in a simple way. You can ask: “What happened in the beginning? The middle? What happened at the end?”  

Read a farm book like The Hat by Jan Brett and tell the order that the animals appear in the story. “Who comes first? Who comes second? Who is last?”

Make it a habit of asking your child to retell you the important events of any story you read together.

Phonemic Awareness

Songs are a wonderful way to help children distinguish sounds from words and to build vocabulary skills. This month, teach your child to sing Old MacDonald Had a Farm

Old MACDONALD had a farm
E-I-E-I-O
And on his farm he had a cow
E-I-E-I-O
With a moo moo here
And a moo moo there
Here a moo, there a moo
Everywhere a moo moo
Old MacDonald had a farm
E-I-E-I-O

Letter Knowledge

• When you sing the alphabet song with your child, have them point to each letter. Here is a free printable of the alphabet you can print out and use.
• Letters: d, r
• Letter Activities:
  • D, d is for duck
    • Book: One Duck Stuck by Phyllis Root
    • Print a few letter D pages to practice handwriting.
  • R is for rabbit
    • My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohrman
    • Use rainbow colors (markers, paint) to write letter R.

Writing

My Writing Kit. Instill a love of writing by giving your child their very own writing tools. This could be a basket of blank paper, a coloring book and crayons or washable markers to use to write and draw. If they have older siblings, make sure to distinguish that this is their own special basket.