Reading Activities and Games
Reading activities to help show your child the fun side of learning! From easy reading activities to help practice letters to more advanced reading skills, we've got you covered! Use the selector on the right to narrow your search by grade.
Make a "Today Is" Poster
During first grade, your child will learn to read the days of the week and months of the year. In this activity, your child practices calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words.
Let's Play Story Time!
In this activity, your child plans the story time, makes a flyer to invite friends, creates a coloring sheet for the guests to color, and performs the story time. Your child is sure to have a great time and remember this activity for many years to come.
Magnets in the Snow
While you are waiting for the real stuff, this activity lets your child play in pretend "snow" while practicing early reading skills and learning about magnets.
Create a Rebus Reading Puzzle
The most common kind of rebus uses pictographs that sound like a word in place of a word to make messages. This activity combines some of the most common sight words with busy hands for a winning combination of learning and creativity!
Make Compound Word Art
Compound words are two words that make up a new word. If your child enjoys drawing, here is a fun way to learn about compound words while creating a folding picture.
Play Tape Letter Learning Games
In preschool, letter learning is the name of the game, and there's no end to fun and easy ways to practice. In this activity, you and your child can play several different games with taped down letters to help reinforce letter recognition while playing.
Gotcha! A Punctuation Readaloud Game
Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.
Action Word Relay Race!
In first grade, kids start to learn the difference between verbs ("action words") and nouns (objects, people, places). Help them take in this information with their whole bodies by playing a few boisterous rounds of this party or playground game.
Make a "Fish Story" Cartoon
Use recycled household materials to make this creative "story cartoon" tray that can help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!
Make a Double "ee" Eel to Practice Phonics!
Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!
