Play Picture Book Charades!
A new twist on the old fashioned game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.
Learn Sight Words with a Water Game!
Try this goofy, outdoor game to build your child's reading and spelling abilities. Not only will you both have fun splashing around outside, but she'll be improving her reading skills at the same time!
Guess The First Letter: A Reading Challenge
What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.
Directions First: Reading to Draw
Here's an activity that'll encourage your young artist to read. Invite your child to decode directions on colors, numbers, and shapes in order to create cool pictures he can add to his art collection!
The Build-a-Word Card Game: Better than Go Fish!
Compound words may look hard at first, but things get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know. Want to add a little "holy moly!" to something that can feel ho hum? This card game will help you practice making compound words-- and have some fun while you're at it!
Shipwreck! A Word "Rescue" Game
Help Captain Letterman retrieve his ships from the watery depths. In this word 'shipwreck' game, kids rescue ships while exploring word families and putting letters together to sound out words.
Play "Roll Those Words", A Reading Activity
Let those good reading times roll! Re-use wooden building blocks or old board game dice to get your child practicing her reading and sentence-writing skills in this twist on a classic word dice game.
Practice Eggshell Phonics
Parents, heads up! "Short-vowel" word families such as "ing," "ack," and "ick," get lots of attention in the first grade classroom. Here's a whimsical activity that lets your child build his phonics skills by making a cool paper craft.
Homonym Adventures
Using storybooks your child already knows introduce her to homonyms, those sound-alike words with different meanings.
Make a "My Favorite Nouns" Book
This activity is a great way to get your first grader thinking about nouns. Create a book together cataloging her favorite people, places, and things to help her harness basic grammar and speech rules!
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