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 Family Time Capsule This New Year's
"Wrap up" the old year and welcome the new one with this family time capsule that supports your first grader's reading and writing skills.
SING-O: Play a Bingo Game with Your Favorite Songs!
Amidst all of the excitement of kindergarten, children are working hard to develop good concentration and memory skills. Building these skills can take lots of practice, but can also be loads of fun, especially when practice feels like playing a fun game!
Play Punctuation Red Light/Green Light!
With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.
Sequence Sentences...and Make Your Favorite Sandwich!
Which comes first: the bread or the turkey? Whether first graders are telling a story about a sandwich or making a real one to eat, the sequence is crucial! Help it all make sense--and taste good, too--with this activity.
Play the "Know it All" Game with Mom!
This year on Mother's Day, play a hilarious party game to challenge your child: does he know Mom as well as you know him?
Understanding Braille
Give your child a glimpse of how other students approach reading, by teaching him how the blind use braille.
Red Rover, Green Rover
Bring the classic game of "Red Rover" up to date with reading and shape recognition skills for your kindergartner!
Play Flip Over Vowels
Hereâs an activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words and help your child get a quick visual representation of how adding a silent e to the end of a word changes the vowel sound in the middle.
Practice Reading with Newspaper "Highlights"
With a newspaper, a highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.
Dress Up Reading: Make a "Realia" Box
Teachers call "dress up" stuff "realia," and they use it a lot to help students enter the world of books. Here's how to use "realia"- tangible puppets and objects that help kids enter the world of books.
