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What Are Fun Ways To Teach Reading: 7 Creative Ideas
Sometimes it’s nice to change things up in your child’s reading routine. But what are fun ways to teach reading while staying on course? And how can you teach reading while also inspiring your child to love books?
Here are seven ideas that get you and your child moving, energized, and engaged while taking that next step in their reading journey.
What Are Fun Ways To Teach Reading?
1) Act It Out
One of the easiest ways to bring a little excitement and drama into your child’s reading time is to act out the story you’re reading together.
If your child loves to perform or play pretend with their toys, this might be a fun way to make the stories your reading literally come to life! If you want to try this idea, ask your child what character they would like to play and which one you should play.
This idea is also super customizable. You can keep it simple and perform in your pajamas right in your child’s bedroom. Or, if you choose to make a project out of it, you and your child can work together to pick out costumes.
Maybe they could even draw scenery from the story to tape around your performance area. It’s completely up to you! Choose whatever offers the most fun and functionality for your family.
If the book has multiple characters, you could also ask other grown-ups or kids to join you. Pick a short story to read in a round-robin fashion, and then everyone chooses a character to play.
Adding more readers into the mix can be even more fun and helpful for your child, as they’ll have the chance to join a special community of readers.
But, again, this is completely optional! You and your little one can have just as much fun with only each other goofing around, perhaps using silly voices and exaggerated motions to make the story and characters hop off the page and into your home.
By reading the story aloud and acting it out, your child can visualize the story and bring the characters to life.
It will help them engage with the story on a totally new level and get their brain working!
2) Match Up
Those little plastic letter magnets that are probably hanging out on your fridge will come in handy for this one!
If you choose to do this activity, collect things around your house with names that your child may be able to read. Focus on items that are spelled with three or fewer letters — such as a cat stuffed animal, a toy car, a pot, or a baseball bat.
When children have experience with the game or are a bit older, you can increase the number of letters per word up to five or more, depending on their reading level.
Next, gather the plastic letters from the fridge that match the items you’ve chosen. Spell out the name of each item using the letters. You may need to start with one or two items at a time, depending on how many letters you have on hand.
Lay the names of the items out on a flat surface with plenty of space in-between each word so your child notices the distinction.
Finally, have your child line up each item underneath the right word.
And when they’re finished, they can make a game out of playing with all the things whose names they read!
3) Rainbow Words
This exercise is great for children who may already have some words in their vocabulary vault but are still exploring how to read independently and need to familiarize themselves with a few more terms.
If your child chooses to try this exercise, ask them to grab a poster board and several different colored markers. For our example, we’ll use all the colors of the rainbow!
Ask your child what they really, really love but aren’t sure how to spell yet. For example, your child might really love certain species of dinosaurs, so you could pick the word “stegosaurus.” Or maybe they really love playing in the mud after a day of rain, so they could pick “puddles.”
Whatever they choose, aim for a word that is just a little bit outside of their current reading vocabulary but is something they want to know!
Once you’ve singled out a word to focus on together, you can help them spell out the word in huge, bubble letters, colored like the rainbow.
They can then color in the bubble letters with their coordinating rainbow colors — or get creative with multi-colored designs!
This gives them the chance to exert independence, which can help build their reading confidence. It also gives you some insight into the words they can practice and what subjects you can use to motivate them to learn more words.
It’s a win-win!
4) Make A Book From Your Book
If you’d like to try this exercise, start by grabbing six or so pieces of paper. Write a number (1 – 6) at the bottom of each piece of paper. Then grab a (short) book your child loves and is familiar with.
This activity may take some getting used to, but once your child gets the hang of it, they can try the method with a new book they’ve enjoyed.
Next, work together to create your own version of the book with your child. Suggest that they draw the cover and a part of each scene (with your help if needed, of course!). As you discuss what happened in the book with your child, write down their narration on the remaining pages.
This book will be extra special to them. They already loved it before, and now they will have a version of their own!
This is a fun way to teach reading, as it lets kids get creative and artistic while developing their sense of reading comprehension. Visualizing the parts of a story on paper can help remind them what they just read and allow them to engage more deeply with the story.
You can also encourage your child to use this tactic as they grow older. If they ever need to recall the events of a story, they’ll have learned from you to visualize important moments and assemble them in the right order, “recreating” the book in their head.
5) Checkers With A Twist
For this activity, you’ll need your trusty Checkers game! Before playing, place a word on each square (or some of the squares if your child is younger). Sticky notes are great for this, or you can cut up small pieces of paper and tape them to the board.
Be sure to use words your child can sound out or sight words they’ve been learning.
Play as always, but each player must read any word they land on.
This concept also works with Tic-Tac-Toe for younger kids!
6) Play The Imitation Game
Playing the imitation game is a great and fun way to teach reading that doesn’t require any additional materials.
If you want to give this activity a go, when you’re reading with your child, change up your voice and then ask them to imitate you while reading the same sentence you just read.
You can say certain things in a whisper, others in a yell, others in a Donald Duck impression — anything that gets your child giggling and paying attention!
Here are some ways this activity can help your child:
- Hearing what fluent reading sounds like (even in a funny voice) helps them develop their own sense of fluency
- Hearing the pronunciation of words, both new and familiar, helps them integrate the words into their vocabulary the right way
- Since they have to imitate exactly what and how you say words, this forces them to pay extra special attention to your reading
7) Find The Word
For this fun way to teach reading, make a list of six words that are at your child’s reading level — that means three-letter words for younger children and four- or five-letter words (or more) for older kids.
Make sure these are words your child can sound out or are sight words they’re learning so they don’t get discouraged. We want them to have fun with this game!
To play, write each word on a Post-It. While your child has their eyes closed, hide the Post-Its around the room. Your child’s job is to find (and read) all the words. Each time they find one, they get to cross it off the list!
Fun And Effective Reading
Sometimes the most helpful thing you can do as part of your child’s reading journey is to let loose and shake things up. We hope these creative ideas gave you some easy options for new, fun ways to teach reading to your child!
We want to leave you with a reassurance that every child is different, and different teaching methods may work better for some kids than for others. With time, you and your child will work out a balance, routine, and set of techniques that set them up for success.
And in the meantime, if you ever need an extra helping hand, consider signing up for a free trial of the HOMER Learn & Grow app! It’s full of interactive, personalized, and fun learning exercises for your child!
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200+ Fun and Easy Learn To Read Activities Your Child Will Love
ByLiz Updated on
Learning to read can be really difficult for some kids but it doesn’t have to be.
We have a huge list of reading activities that are so much fun. If you need to learn something, why not learn through play?
These activities are great for kids of all ages starting with the early pre-readers.
200+ Learning To Read Activities
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Learning to read fun | Mamovedia
Every child's parents face an extremely important mission - to teach their child to read. This is certainly important and necessary. This is the start of the educational process. Kindergarten teachers come to help parents, then teachers in schools. However, the foundation and the beginning, as a rule, are laid by the parents. They should help overcome the difficulties that a child may face in the hitherto unknown world of letters and words.
There are many methods and techniques, toys, books, educational games aimed at teaching reading to children of different ages. They can be conditionally divided into several blocks:
1. "Whole words" method. Glen Doman, the author of this technique, recommends showing the child signs with different words and sentences from early childhood. However, this method is not effective enough for the Ukrainian language.
Since, firstly, such activities can quickly get bored by both the child and parents, and secondly, the word is inclined and may have a different ending in the sentence. Children who have learned to read using the Whole Word method often do not read the end of a word or make it up.
2. Letter Composition method. First, the child gets acquainted with the letters, and only then learns to form syllables and words from them. The complexity and error of this technique lies in the fact that the child is voiced by the names of the letters, for example, "EM", "TE", "KA". Thus, it is then difficult for the child to create PAPA with "PE" "A" "PE" "A". Pictures are also often used, where the letter is associated with the pattern. For example, the printed letter “D” and a house is drawn, the letter “T” is a telephone, “O” is glasses, and the like. This also then prevents the child from reading - it is difficult for him to understand how the phone and glasses form the syllable "TO".
3 . Method "Reading by syllables". The author of this technique is Nikolay Zaitsev. He suggests learning immediately combinations of letters that form syllables. Thus, the child loses the opportunity to independently make the discovery that a syllable can be obtained from the letters he has studied, and then a word. The game form of training and the presence of positive results attract supporters of this technique. Children who have learned to read using this method sometimes have difficulty understanding the text. They also have difficulty reading words that contain closed syllables. All this can then have its negative consequences when writing words.
4. Sound-letter method. The essence of the method lies in the fact that the child first gets acquainted with the world of sounds, then analyzes them and learns to compare them with letters. This method is considered the most consistent and pedagogical.
How to teach reading using the "Sound-letter" method?
First of all, read books to your child, awaken his interest and love for books.
Teach your baby to listen to the world around him. Here the cat purrs, the bird sings, the fly bothers, the kettle boils, the vacuum cleaner buzzes and the like. Repeat yourself and ask the child to voice this or that action. Play with your baby and use onomatopoeic words. Explain to the child that there are vowels and consonants, teach them to distinguish. Gradually move on to letters. Name the word and ask the child what sound the word begins with. Then write down the named sound already in the form of letters.
Letters can be written on cardboard cards, chalk on asphalt, molded from plasticine, dough, built from matches, etc.
Some fun letter learning ideas:
• Letter cards. You need two sets of cards with letters - one for the "teacher", the second for the little student.
Start with a small number of cards - 3-4 cards. Choose the vowels first. The game is as follows: you name the sound and show the card - the kid is looking for the corresponding letter among his cards. Further, you can complicate the task - name only the sound, but do not show the card with the letter. Experiment so that the baby is interested and fun.
• The letter is in search! Tasks can be very diverse, invent and have fun with your baby. For example: on a large sheet of paper, write letters (about 20) of various sizes or colors. Ask your child to find the same letters and circle them, connect the letters of the same color, underline the vowels, and the like.
• First letter. Name the child words and ask what letter the word begins with. First, highlight the letter "A-a-pineapple", "M-m-machine" and others. For visualization - you can offer to show a letter in the alphabet, on a magnetic board with letters, on a map (wherever there are letters).
When the letters are mastered, you can gradually move on to syllables. It is better to start with two vowels, then teach to read open and then closed syllables. From the very beginning, choose syllables that make sense or express emotion - ay, ia, oh, oh, ah, na, that, from, and the like.
Tasks and games that may be useful at this stage:
• Guess! To learn how to read in syllables, you need to learn how to divide a word into syllables and put it back together. To do this, the child needs to call the word with pauses, for example, PA-PA, MOM, FISH-BA, RU-KA. Ask the child what word he hears. First, take small pauses and choose easy words, then complicate the task further. Such a fun game that you can play, for example, on the way to kindergarten, will help the baby in the future to understand what he will read by syllables.
• Go on! Tell your child the beginning of a word and ask what's next?.. For example, Vo-ro? - NA, books? - ha, etc.
• Useful exercises : find the missing letter; cross out the extra letter change one letter to another to get a new word, for example, cancer - poppy; add up all possible variants of syllables from several letters; make words from the given syllables.
• Mindfulness exercise . Type a line with the same syllable, but make a mistake in one syllable. Invite the child to find the mistake and cross out or underline the false syllable.
• Magnetic board . Letters on magnets can be used both on a regular refrigerator and on a special board. As a rule, kids really like to play in this way. And you can come up with a wide variety of tasks, you can use the ideas mentioned above J
Gradually, in a playful way, words come out of syllables from syllables. And then the last stage of learning is reading sentences. If the baby has mastered reading skills well and easily reads individual incoherent words, you can begin to acquaint him with sentences.
Start with the simplest ones, for example, "This is a cat", "There is cancer" and others. Then add another word, and so on. Build the first sentences for the child from the words known to him, these can be the names of relatives, common verbs - eat, drink, walk. And go ahead - step by step help the baby learn new knowledge.
At this stage there is also room for fun:
• A funny book. You can make such a book yourself. It is necessary to fold several sheets of paper in half and sew them in the form of a book. Turn the book over so that the fold is at the top, make 3 cuts - divide the book into 3 parts. On each part it is necessary to write one word, but so that the whole sentence is obtained.
For example: Mom is cooking borscht. Dad is reading a book. The cat eats fish. Etc.
And then you can play: read the sentences in the correct order, or have fun - turn the page not all at once, but only some parts. There will be funny offers. For example, the Cat is reading a book :)
• Secret messages.
Children love treasure hunts and various mysterious occurrences. Play and ReadJ Hide clue letters, such as "On Dad's Desk", "In the Closet", "Under Your Pillow", etc. Write letters to your child from your favorite characters from fairy tales and cartoons.
No matter what method you use to teach your child to read. It should be understood that the ultimate goal is for the child to comprehend the content of the words, sentences, and text he has read. .. Only in this case, the child may have a desire to read and explore the world with the book. So, the emphasis should be on quality and meaning, not on speed and quantity. With kids, you should be patient, do not rush, do not get upset because of mistakes and sincerely rejoice at successes. Education of preschoolers should take place exclusively in the form of a game and bring pleasure to the little participants. Do not overload the child, finish the lesson before the kids lose interest. In this case, the child will be happy to wait for the continuation.
Every day repeat what you have already learned and add a little something new :)
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"Letters" - a universal tool for composing any words using a convenient voiced keyboard. Words are automatically split into “*warehouses”. The child will see the whole word, its constituent warehouses, listen to the sound of letters and warehouses in the word. And our character unicorn Ray will tell the kid how to read warehouses one by one! This is an interactive primer and alphabet for kids in one convenient way - learn the alphabet, read syllables, words and whole sentences! For girls and boys, for your kids!
“Letters” is teaching to read by the universally recognized sound-letter method, combined with the advantages of other methods.
“Letters” are also suitable for children. garden and school. Older children will benefit from dividing words into syllables to prepare for school and do homework.
In the application "Letters" we implemented:
- Constructor of any words in the sounded keyboard: learn letters, syllables, words, sentences. Like cubes, only better!
- Alphabet for children. Voiced alphabet ABC with pictures.
- Dividing words into warehouses and syllables
- Professional sounding of sounds and warehouses
- Meetings with kind characters on the "Inhabited Island", 25+ thematic sets of words for memorizing letters
- Construction simulator "Miracle Building" with game tasks for developing vocabulary and literacy and learning letters
- “Play town” with three educational games that will help kids remember common letter combinations
- “Syllabary House” - a simulation of a room that can be furnished with objects obtained during solving tasks for composing syllables
- Interactive thematic panoramas with 200+ voiced puzzles and objects
- Motivation system in the form of an album with stickers and rewards for completing tasks
- Timer for parents to control the time spent in the game
- Statistics and analytics of the baby's success on the screen for parents
"Bukovki" is not just a game, but a faithful assistant to parents in teaching children to read! A whole school of reading!
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If you have any questions or comments, please email us at [email protected]. We are always open for communication and will be glad to know your opinion about the application!
* warehouse - a combination of a consonant and a vowel, a consonant with a hard or soft sign, as well as any single letter.
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