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For Kindergarten:
5 Fun Ways To Get Ready For Reading!
These hands-on visual discrimination activities for kindergarten kids will help them get ready for reading!
Visual discrimination skills help kids to pay attention to details and see the difference between, 'b', 'd' and 'p'. This helps them get ready for letter formations, reading and math. Working with maps and graphs, and doing spot-the-difference activities, all require strong skills.
Use these simple, play-based activities to help your child today!
Key Takeaways For Busy Parents:
- Hands-on visual discrimination activities help kindergartners pay attention to detail, which is crucial for reading and letter formation.
- Use matching cards, shadow outlines, graphing games and jigsaw puzzles for effective, fun learning.
- Make use of printable visual discrimination worksheets to reinforce and enhance skills.
Matching Cards
Try and use cards which have similar background on all the cards, like the ones shown - then your child needs to pay attention to the details of the picture, and not simply match the color background!
Use a set of matching cards like you find in concentration/memory games. Mix up a few of the pairs.
Ask your child to find the matching cards.
You can increase the challenge of this activity by increasing the number of cards on the table.
Find the matching cardDon't have matching cards? Try a charity shop for second-hand options, or take a look at this Woodlands Matching Game(#Ad) from Amazon.
Matching Shadows/Outlines
Matching shadows or matching outlines is a good visual discrimination activity for kindergarten as well as for preschool. Because there are no colors to give your child clues, then he/she has to pay more attention to the actual detail of the picture.
If your child has some activity books, look through them to find the pages where your child needs to match outlines or shadows like the ones shown below.
Sometimes you can find shadow match cards like these ones, and can also get shadow match books#Ad on Amazon.
Match the outlines
Match the shadowOr you can purchase this inexpensive visual perceptual e-book that contains shadow bingo printables like the ones shown here.
I turn the bingo game into a matching activity for just one child.
Graphing Games
Teaching your child to pay attention to detail is an important step in developing good visual discrimination skills. I have found this printable download to be a helpful visual discrimination activity for kindergarten aged kids.
"Graphing Games" requires the child to look at the object and then place it in the correct position on the “graph” according to the color and contents of the picture.
This download of reproducible Graphing Games sheets is a fantastic resource packed with different themed graphs like this one.
You can increase the challenge by printing in black and white, which reduces any color clues and makes the kids focus more on the smaller line details.
Jigsaw Puzzles
Completing a jigsaw puzzle requires visual discrimination, visual closure and figure-ground perception skills
in order to pick out the pieces required and orientate them correctly
to fit into the correct place.
For this reason, jigsaw puzzles are a fantastic activity, not just for kindergarten, but all the way through childhood.
Good puzzles can be expensive, so why not swap with friends, or request them as birthday gifts? Make it a family tradition to complete a new puzzle each vacation.
Building a puzzleIf your child struggles with the concept of building puzzles, then check out my page on teaching kids how to do puzzles.
These Ravensburger puzzles on Amazon#Ad are perfect for age 5 and older, but yard sales are also a great place to pick up puzzles - just check that all the pieces are intact before you purchase!
Printable Visual Discrimination Activities for Kindergarten
If you have been to my website before, you will have realized that I am not a fan of worksheets! I firmly believe that hands-on activities are much better for developing kids' skills.
However, these visual discrimination worksheets can be helpful to help kids consolidate their skills after hands-on activities.
These printable resources can either cut up into cards that can be used in a a hands-on activity or your child can point to the solution while doing the activity with you. No need to fill in answers with a pencil!
These are my favorite printable visual discrimination worksheets for kindergarten and I have used them over and over with the kids I have worked with.
Simply click on the image to read a description of the printable.
Printing a color worksheet in black & white can increase the challenge.
You can also check out the discounted bundle deal of printable resources! A great way to get a variety of visual discrimination worksheets for kindergarten - use a different one every day.
You don't need expensive resources to help your child develop visual discrimination skills - puzzles, matching games and fun printables are great ways to support your child!
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If you are looking for simpler activities, then try these easier visual discrimination activities for preschool and toddlers.
Or get some ideas for slightly more challenging activities for older kids!
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