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First Grade Reading Activities

First Grade Reading activities to help show your child the fun side of learning! From easy first grade reading activities to more advanced, we've got you covered! Browse the activities below or use the selector to find similar activities.

Make Your Own Reading Tour Pointer

Help your first grader practice his sight words by creating a reading pointer and having him take the family on a house-wide reading tour!

Reading: Sight Words | Arts and Crafts: Paper & Glue Crafts | First Grade

Label the Food Groups

Help build help your first grader's reading vocabulary and literacy while also boosting their nutritional knowledge with this easy and fun home science activity.

Reading: Comprehension | Science: Life Science | First Grade

Wall of Fame: Make a Reading "Star Chart"

Here's a way to keep track of books your child has read, mark the achievement of reading them, and most importantly, step back and think: which ones were really, really great?

Reading: Comprehension | First Grade

Questions, Questions, Ask Away!

Want to be sure your young reader is really following a story? Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking.

Reading: Comprehension | First Grade

Fox in Socks-Inspired Tongue Twister Contest

Try your hand at some Seuss-like tongue twisters! Boost those vocabulary skills with this fun game for the whole family.

Reading: Phonics | First Grade | Games

Tea Bag Reading

You will personalize "bags of tea" with jumbles of words that can be reconfigured to form a simple sentence. Make acquainting your child with sentence structure and improving her reading skills an entertaining challenge!

Reading: Comprehension | Writing: Composition | First Grade

"Ten of Ten": Make 100 Words!

Sure, the 100th Day of School is a great time for math. But that doesn't mean that words can't be part of the celebration, too! Try our word-builder challenge and see.

Reading: Phonics | First Grade

Play the Vocabulary Game

Play the Vocabulary Game to help your child develop a superb, admirable, excellent, magnificent, splendid vocabulary!

First Grade | Reading | Writing

Create a "Reading is Rewarding" Kit

Learning to read is an adventure for first graders and an undertaking, too. Make a "Reading is Rewarding" Kit that let's your child know you're with him for the whole wild ride.

Reading: Comprehension | First Grade

Have a Candy Corn Retelling

Retelling is an easy activity you can do at home to improve your child's reading comprehension. In this activity, use candy corn and foam to make retelling simple and sweet!

Reading: Comprehension | First Grade