Narberth CP School



Games/Activities for ALN ChildrenKim’s GamePut five objects on a tray, such as a pencil, pen, small toy, shell or ornament. Ask your child to study them for a couple of minutes. Put a cover over the tray. How many objects can your child remember? Children love this game and it can be played with more or less items depending on your child’s age and ability. A variation of the game can be played when they get very good at it. Here, you take the tray out of sight after they have studied the objects. You then remove one object and ask your child if they can spot which one is missing. This will help with visual memory which is important for reading and spelling. Matching PairsYou could use playing cards and remove the numbers 6-10. Place the remaining cards face down on the table in eight rows of four. Each player tries to find a matching pair by turning up two cards. If it is not a matching pair, then the cards are placed face down again in the same position. If they do match, the player keeps this pair of cards and has another turn. When all the pairs have been found, players count their pairs. The one with the most pairs of cards is the winner.This will help encourage memory training by using the playing cards it will reinforce number learning too. WEBSITES TrainYou could play “I packed my suitcase and put in my…..” or “I went to the shop and I bought….” This will help with auditory memory as it involves listening and repeating the same list over and over and adding in an item each time. Spot the DifferenceSpot the difference will help build concentration and visual memory skills as it will help form and retain visual pictures.Where’s Wally is another great activity you could do as it support visual discrimination. are also activities for visual discrimination on the eye can website, see below. you have this game, it is a great game that you can play with children at home. It is a great activity for visual discrimination for children and will help your child in recognising letters when reading. Rhyming Rhyming?teaches children how language works. It helps them notice and work with the sounds within words. When children are familiar with a nursery?rhyme?or?rhyming?book, they learn to anticipate the?rhyming?word. This prepares them to make predictions when they read, another?important?reading skill. Motor SkillsFine motor skills are necessary for the activities that involve smaller movements in wrists, hands and fingers. They are crucial for our ability to perform most of the usual, daily self-care tasks such as buttoning clothes, cutting food, tying our shoes or brushing teeth, but also for precise colouring, drawing and writing.Activities;Easy crafts. Give them opportunities to use different materials such as paper, cardboard, wood or glue, and colour, cut or combine them to make something new.Colouring exercises, mazes on paper or exercises that involve drawing shapes of different sizes.Opening and closing jars or bottles, tying shoes, buttoning clothes, etc.Beading, sewing, knitting etc.SpellingSpelling is something dyslexic children/adults find difficult. Here are some activities to help your children at home;Help your child to understand words are made up of syllables and each syllable has a vowel sound. Say a word and ask how many syllables there are. Help your child to spell each syllable at a time.Ensure children understand that within in every syllable there is a vowel. You can help then do this by writing the vowel in a different colour so that they can visually see where the vowel is. Write words in different coloured pens to make a rainbow or in shaving foam, flour or sand over and over again to help your child remember themLook with your child at the bits in the words which they find difficult - use colours to highlight just the tricky bitWebsite puzzles can help children with spelling as it has crossword puzzles, word searches and it also can support with logical thinking.Suitable for KS2 children. ................
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