Play Roly 6

What you’ll need 

A device to play Play Roly videos, the letter sound videos below, your book or pages from earlier Play Roly activities, your Roly-ball, and a marker pen.

How to play

• Sit about six feet apart with your book and access to the video sound letters below
• Write the words for today in your child’s book or on a blank page
• Play the Play Roly 6 video and roll Roly back and forth
• Stop the video at the first Roly-word beginning with ssss and ask your child to match the letters in his or her book with the letter sound videos, play each letter sound once and roll your Roly-ball back and forth as the letter sound videos are played
• After the three letter sound videos have played, sing the three sounds a second time on your own the way Roly sings them with no pauses or breaks between the sounds—help your child remember the letter sounds if needed
• After each word, ask your child what the letter sounds are saying
• Start with words they know in the ‘ssss’ and ‘mmmm’ videos
• New words are introduced in the ‘ffff’ and ‘rrrr’ videos (write these in your book)
• Finally, read more than one word per page in Story 1 and Story 2 (write these in your book)  
• If your child cannot sound out the words with help two times, we recommend you start again at the beginning of the Play Roly 1 videos for more practice
  
  

What to expect

Do one video session per day. Have hi-fiving fun. Move through all the videos until your child can read stories 1 and 2. Congratulations—your child is starting to read—just like Roly! We expect most children will need to return to Play Roly 1 several times to gain extra practice. Don’t worry if this happens, your child is building confidence ready to become a reader.