Reading Activities
Guided Reading Activities

You can easily use reading skill activities to help your child develop reading skills for comprehension, phonics and sequencing.

Mastery of these skills makes reading fun!

Whether you are home schooling your child or you are supplementing your child's school lessons, you can use guided reading activities to help him become a better reader.

Children learn faster when they read about projects that they enjoy.
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Reading Skill Activities
What are They?

• Reading worksheets

• Reading games for kids – Games to teach reading make the process fun, not drudgery. They help your child develop a love for reading.
• Conversation - Talking with your child helps her to develop a better vocabulary. A larger vocabulary helps her to comprehend more of what she reads.
• Searching for answers – Give your child a list of questions. When reading a story or chapter, he looks for answers to the questions. Make some of the questions easy and some a little more difficult to determine.

• Word hunts – Have your child hunt for his spelling words in the story that he is reading. This helps connect his spelling words to real life, instead of just viewing them as a list of words.

• Retell the story – Have your child read a story and then retell the story in his own words.

• The main theme – Have your child summarize a story and tell you the main point of the story. (For example, the moral in a story or fairy tale.)

• Synonyms - Give your child a small list of words. Have him find words that mean the same as those words, in the story that he reads.

• Antonyms – Again, give your child a small list of words. Have him read and story and then find words that mean the opposite of those words, in the story.

Kinds of Reading Activities

• Activities for reading skills
• Fun activities for reading
• Phonics activities – one example for very young children is Click N Kids. Reasonably priced, it teaches phonics AND typing!
• Elementary reading activities
• Activities for struggling readers
• Beginning readers activities
• Activities for reluctant readers

And don't forget that activities don't have to be structured. You can have your child read about a science experiment before he actually does the experiment. Or, you might have your child bake kid friendly recipes for dog treats for your dog (or your neighbor's dog).

And, if you are going on vacation, have your child do some “research” about something that you will see while you are vacationing.

For example, if you will be going to the beach, find out what kind of animals your child might see (sea gulls, crabs, sand crabs, mussels, etc.) Then, have him read about those animals before you go. He will have a high level of interest, and it will make his vaction more fun!

As you can see, activities for reading are not always structured learning experiences in a classroom.

Your child can improve his reading by doing many enjoyable activities. Be creative and think of new ways to expose your children to reading and its fun!

Reading Activities to Childrens Books