Play Roly 6: A playful start to decoding words on your own
BEGIN EARLY READING
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
- Ask your child to match the letters in his or her book with the letter sound videos, play each letter sound once, and afterward, roll your Roly-ball back and forth and remind your child the way Roly exaggerates the 3 letter-sounds, without breaks or breaths between his sounds
- 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 the “sit sad sad” and “mad mud men” videos (write the words in your book)
- Next, do the “fat fin fit” and “rat run red” videos (write the words 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 the Play Roly 1 videos again for more practice
What to expect
Do one video session per day. Have high-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 to be ready to become a reader
Play a Play Roly 6 Video
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"fat fin fit"
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"mad mud men"
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"rat run red"
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"sit sat sad"
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"story 1"
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"story 2"
fat fin fit
- fat fin fit
- mad mud men
- rat run red
- sit sat sad
- story 1
- story 2
Letter Sound Videos
Roly’s letter sound videos tell you what the letters have to say!
First Sounds
First Sounds
Last Sounds
Got questions?
Play the Play Roly 6 videos once daily until your child can understand the letter sounds and say the words. Be sure to have high-fiving fun.
- After the program is finished, your child may want to read their book to other family members, their toys, or on their own
- Roly has created three easy decodable readers that your child will be ready to start reading:
What's next? Free decodable readers
- Encourage your child to snuggle up and read to you
- You can help your child to sound out the words or remember the letter sounds if needed
- Let us know how it went by clicking the contact button below and sending us an email