Reading Activities

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

Homonym Beanbag Toss

Homonym Beanbag Toss

Homonyms are those tricky little words that tend to confound early learners. Help your second grader ace the challenge with this rousing outdoor game.

Bean Bag Challenges

Bean Bag Challenges

Beanbags are one of the most useful learning tools you can find. The low cost and seemingly endless instant activities make beanbags a good choice for learning and having fun! Try some of our favorite educational bean bag challenges.

Practice Story-Telling with Fairy Tale Dice

Practice Story-Telling with Fairy Tale Dice

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your child to weave fantastic fairy tales! Not only will this help your child learn about story sequencing, but he'll also get practice building up his reading and writing skills.

Play "I Caught You!" An Early Reading Game

Play "I Caught You!" An Early Reading Game

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.

Make a Name Puzzle

Make a Name Puzzle

Preschoolers love to scribble. But they might not understand yet that letters need to be put together in a certain order to make words. This activity will help teach that... and give your kid her very own name puzzle, too!

Digraph Bingo

Digraph Bingo

Digraphs are letter pairs like "sh" and "ch" that together make a single sound. Learning them can be tricky for new readers, but this bingo game makes it easy...and fun!

Crazy Eights With Word Families!

Crazy Eights With Word Families!

Make and play a Crazy Eights-inspired card game with your kindergartner to help boost her understanding of phonics and word families.

Play Alphabet Tag

Play Alphabet Tag

Kids get in lots of letter learning as they play this fun twist on regular tag, which engages their minds as well as their bodies.

Make a "Fish Story" Cartoon

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!

Write Oulipo N+7

Write Oulipo N+7

Meant to be fun and inspiring, N+7 and Oulipo methods challenge writers to recycle writing, use new language and it enriches vocabulary, spelling and critical thinking.

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