Teaching SMALL FAN to read - Part IV

SMALL FAN seems to have lost interest in the word matching games, so I'm kinda stuck, not too such how I should move on with his phonics lesson. So, hunted around for ideas and stumble upon this book from the National Library. It's call Games for Reading: Playful Ways to Help Your Child Read by Peggy Kaye.

This book is not really a teaching phonics book, but basically it contains a lot of fun activities for you to play with your little ones from heightening him/her to words right to letter sounds and also activities to enhance their visual skills (which is necessary for reading) and stuff like that. Thought the ideas were quite cool. Am thinking of buying this book and trying out the activities with SMALL FAN. Just to state a few:

• When going on a shopping trip, have a competition with your kid to look for words, for e.g. chocolate and sweets. End of the trip see who can find more words. This heighten their awareness of words.
• While waiting in queue (such as seeing a doctor), take out a magazine which you don't want, choose a paragraph in the magazine and start hunting alphabets in the magazine with the kids. He can look for the letter 'a' while you can look for letter 'e' and see who can find the most letters.
• While seating in a car, get your kid to love for letters as you travel along the road. Get him to look for cars with the letter "A" on their license plate or look for signboard with the letter "A" etc.