as far as reading goes my son is in Kindergarten and they have sight words. Basically words they should know on sight with out sounding out. Also learning all the letter sounds. We used them on flash cards. Google Sight words and you will be able to find a list. There is a good free program I used with my son before school started http://www.starfall.com/ it helped prepare him for kindergarten. That backed with us reading every day for at least 30 minutes helped him. My son passed all his k, 1st, and 2nd grade sight words already so his teacher said just keep reading to him. So that's what we do.

Writing is repetition. At the start of school they had a different letter in their HW packet every day. So one day was A. They would have to write lower and uppercase A's, then a couple of A words. Once so this helped with reading too. Also they had to do name tracing and number tracing. So monday and wednesday they had a sheet with their name. They traced their name twice and on the last line they had to write it. On Tues and Thurs. they had to trace numbers 1-10, then 1-20, and so on. Right now they are doing 1-60. The first two months they were just focused on getting them comfortable holding a pencil and writing. Now its using the correct guidelines for each letter and word spacing.

like I put above check out http://www.starfall.com/ for phonics help

here is a site where you can make tracing sheets and print them out yourself http://www.handwritingworksheets.com/

also see if there are any computer programs they kids use at school she can log into at home. My son has a math program and two reading programs on his ipad that are from school.

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