°    Teaching Diagonals

°    Play checkers or Connect Four to develop perception of diagonals.

°    Play Tic Tac Toe.

°    Teach the child to play chess. Start with three types of pieces, the king, queen and pawns. Add others, as the child understands.

°    Play Chinese checkers.

°    Teaching Matching

°    Complete a sticker book matching sticker types.

°    Play Old Maid or Go Fish.

°    Do puzzles. Have a race.

°    Play Perfection – play without the timer at first.

°    Play one of the memory games. Place pictures in rows to aid memory.

°    Play Husker Du?

°    Play Dominoes. Try picture Dominoes or colored dominoes.

°    Play Scrabble or a related game (Boggle or Sesame Street Scrabble)

°    Teaching Left and Right Recognition

°    Play Hokey Pokey.

°    Have the student wear only the right shoe for 15 to 30 minutes a day.

°    Tie a piece of yarn on the right wrist and ankle.

°    Practice giving high fives with the right hand.

°    Put an R on the back or the right hand.

°    Using an arrow game, the child tells which way it is pointing (!#"$).

°    Have a child wear a bracelet on the right hand.

°    Help the child draw maps of familiar places showing the direction to turn.

°    Teaching Depth Perception

°    Play Pick up Stix looking for the sticks that are on top.

°    Play the Barrel of Monkeys game.

°    Play Jenga.

°    Hold two small objects in front of the child, move them back and forth ask them to say which one is closer.

°    Teaching Figure-Ground Discrimination

°    Place a stuffed animal somewhere in the room – the child finds it.

°    Complete hidden picture worksheets.

°    Find two magnetic letters that are the same.

°    Place number or alphabet cards around the room and have the student point and recite in order.

°    Play “I’m thinking of something in the room that…” (For example, “is small and green”). The child searchers for the item (use hot/cold cues).

°    Use scrambled magnetic letters to practice spelling words.

°    Complete multi-piece puzzles.

°    Ask the child to find a person in the cafeteria or on the playground.

°    The child locates letters or words from a group of several cards.

°    Play “I Spy” with a paper towel tube. Spot objects around the room.

°    Work on a Where’s Waldo? Or similar book.

°    Make a large scribble on the board, the child traces over it.

°    Untangle a loose knot of different colored yarns.

°    Teaching Word and Letter Memory

°    Use a card with the child’s name on it instead of calling names.

°    Write names of classroom objects and tape them on. (Desk, chair, etc.).

°    Match paired word cards (try using spelling words).

°    Spell words using magnetic letters.

°    Find all the A’s in a storybook, magazine article, or comic book.

°    Practice words on the computer.

°    Spell words in modeling clay.

°    Use a land-held electronic speller.

°    Underline or highlight friend’s names in a phone book.

°    Perceptual Motor Center: Gather materials used for diagonals, matching, right/left discrimination, depth perception, figure-ground discrimination, word and letter memory, eye-tracking, and sequencing, and combine them in a perceptual motor center. Alternate toys and manipulatives on the shelves of the center to increase motivation to use the materials.