Kindergarten Reading Activities
Browse through our kindergarten reading activities. We have many kindergarten reading activities to keep your kindergartener learning on the fly, all year long. From phonic fun to grocery store games, you'll find our selection of kindergarten reading activities below.
Climb That Food Pyramid and Boost Those Kinder Reading Skills!
No, marshmallows aren't a staple food. But try telling that to a hungry kindergartner right before dinner! Want to find a better way to teach nutrition and build up his early reading skills, too? Here's an interesting and informative activity that can help.
Make a Patterned Story
Now that your child is in kindergarten, those repetitive preschool texts like "Brown Bear" may seem like relics...but look again. They can be the basis of excellent reading and writing development.
What Happens Next?: Create Story Sequencing Cards
Sequencing is important to academic success and logical thinking. Want to help your child practice this important skill? Here's an at-home activity to help her develop this ability by making simple story cards.
Play Beginning Sounds Clothespin Match-Up
Kindergarteners develop phonological awareness skills in a variety of ways, including lots of fun, hands-on games. Here's a fun way to get your child to listen to beginning alphabet sounds and match them with their letter symbols.
Craft a Royal Reading Crown
There's something about crowns that never quite goes out of style, especially if you're a kindergarten kid. Here's a creative way to make one, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.
Where Do I Live? An Animal Habitat Game
During kindergarten, your child will study habitats and learn that a habitat is where an animal lives. This silly game reinforces the concept of habitats and what animals live in different habitats.
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!
Play Vocab-Building Improv!
There is no better time than the present to begin fostering your talented and creative young learner's knack for improvisation. With this anytime, anywhere game, kids can get a giggle while increasing their vocabulary.
