Games to teach reading

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Here are six games parents or tutors can use to help young readers practice word recognition, spelling patterns, and letter-sound knowledge. When planning to play one of these games, choose words to use from books the child is reading or has read recently. The games should also be chosen or designed to promote the child's sense of competence and success.

1. Concentration

To make

Select five to ten words from a book (or books) the child is reading. Print each word clearly and boldly on separate 3x5 inch index cards, making pairs of each word. (The child may be able to help you by copying the words you write.)

To play

Shuffle the cards and place them face down in neat rows. Take turns turning up two cards at a time and reading the words aloud. If the two cards match, the player keeps them and takes a second turn. If they do not match, the cards are replaced face down and the next player takes a turn. Play until all the cards are matched. The player with the most pairs wins. If the child has trouble recognizing a word, say the word — do not ask the child to "sound out" the word. The purpose of this game is to build automatic recognition of whole words.

You can control the difficulty of the game by the choice and number of words used: for very beginning readers, choose meaningful words that are visually distinctive: "ghost", "dark", "sister", and keep the number of words low. For a more challenging game, include some words that are less distinctive: "when", "what", "this", "that", but be careful not to overwhelm the child.

Variation 1

Instead of matching pairs, you can use rhyming pairs: look, book; dark, park.

Variation 2

This game can also be used to build letter recognition and letter/sound association. Paste or draw simple pictures on one set of cards; and on the other set, print initial consonants to go with the pictures. For example, paste the picture of a dog on one card, and write the letter "D" on a matching card.

Note: This game can be adapted to use with older children, or more advanced readers: variations can include vocabulary practice such as using homonyms, (words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have different meanings: cent/scent; dear/deer, etc.) or contractions, (can't; cannot, etc.).

2. Go fish

This game is good for early fluent to fluent readers.

To make

Select ten to 20 words from a book (or books) the child is reading. Print the words clearly and boldly on separate 3x5 inch index cards, making pairs of each word. (Children may help by copying the words you write.) Two to four players can play this game.

To play

Shuffle and deal three to five cards to each player. Place the rest of the deck face down. Players take turns asking each other for a card to match one held in his or her hand. If the opponent has a matching card, it is given over, and the first player takes another turn. If the opponent does not have a match, he or she says "Go Fish" and the player draws from the remaining deck of cards, and the next player takes a turn. Each time a player has a match, he or she reads the words, and puts down the pair, face up. Continue the game until the cards are all used up.

Instead of matching words, rhyming words can be used. In this case, players ask for "a word that sounds like 'night'..." At the end, the child can earn extra points by dictating or writing additional words that rhyme with the base words, or creating "silly" sentences using the rhymes.

Note: This game can be adapted to use with older children, or more advanced readers: variations can include vocabulary practice such as using homonyms (words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have different meanings: cent/scent; dear/deer, etc.), or contractions (can't; cannot, etc.).

3. Old maid

To make

Select three words per player from a book (or books) being read. Print them clearly and boldly on separate 3x5 inch index cards, making pairs of words. Choose one more word without a match that will be the winning card.

To play

Shuffle and deal three to six cards to each player. Players take turns drawing a card from a player to their left. If a player draws a card that matches one in his or her hand, he/she reads the two matching words in order to keep the pair. Play continues until all the cards are matched, except for the one odd card. The player who holds that card at the end wins the game.

4. Monopoly

This is a great game to help teach word family patterns and spelling patterns. This should be used with children who write fairly comfortably, usually second grade or older.

To make

Create a game board with four or five squares on each side. Prepare word cards with families of words that emerge from the child's reading: night, light, tight; went, bent, sent; hat, cat, bat. (For beginning readers or younger children, make sure the patterns are not too similar: mat, sat, rat; man, can, ran; met, set, bet.) Color code each word family and each side of the game board.

Place the words face up around the board in sets. To add to the element of chance, have other game directions on the board, such as "take another turn", "go back 2 spaces", etc. Prepare score sheets for each player with color-coded headings for each word family.

To play

Role dice or use a spinner to move around the board. Wherever a player lands he reads the word, then writes it in the appropriate "word family" category on the score sheet. Extra points can be earned by dictating or writing sentences with the rhyming words.

5. Rhyming games

Play rhyming games to teach about the patterns in words. Try the following, for example, for words in the same family as the word black:

Introduce a poem or rhyming story such as Miss Mary Mack:
Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack
all dressed in black, black, black
with silver buttons, buttons, buttons
up and down her back, back, back…
Encourage the child to point out words in books that have a similar spelling pattern as in black.
Help the child think of other words that have this pattern. You may have to write a few words for him or her:
sack
pack
stack

Then have the child read the whole word and underline the repeated part of the word, "ack."
Using magnetic letters or Scrabble pieces, form a word with the "ack" pattern. Ask the student to change the first letter of the word (for example: 's' in sack) to make a new word, such as pack. You should be sure to provide a limited number of letters (two or three at first) for the child to choose from.
Remember to choose a word pattern that is useful and important to the student and that relates to something that he or she has read or will read. If possible, start with a word he or she already knows in the word family. After reading a book about being sad, for example, start with the word "cry" and then follow with "fry", "try", and "wry".
Remember to review the word families you've chosen to work on periodically by playing some of the other games described above.
Be sure to give the student a chance to go back to a book, poem, or other texts where he or she can apply this new reading skill. Poems, nursery rhymes, and jump rope jingles are a great resource for early readers.

6. Fishing for sounds

This is a game for emergent readers and writers.

To make

Find and cut out small pictures of familiar objects from magazines, old workbooks, catalogues. Try to find several pictures that start with the same letter, such as book, bed, basket, boy; snake, sun, skate, slide, etc. (The child can help; this is a good language activity too.)

Cut out 12-15 fish shapes and paste or draw one picture on each fish.

On individual 3x5 inch index cards or on an 8x11 inch piece of paper or cardboard, print consonant letters with a key picture for each group of pictures found. (For example, print the letter "S" with the picture of a sun to represent all the words beginning with that letter.) (If using a sheet of paper, print only two or three letters per sheet. )

To play

Select two or three sets of fish pictures that start with the same letters and mix them up. Place face down on a table and take turns "going fishing." As each fish is turned over, the child names the picture and places it in the appropriate pile under the key letter / picture. When all the fish are caught and placed correctly, have the child "read" the pictures under each heading. If necessary, read along with him or her, saying the letter name and stressing the initial sound of the word. "Yes, here are 'S' pictures: sssun, sssnake, sssaxophone."

To add excitement, you can play as opponents, each player having one or two categories and key letter / pictures. Take turns fishing, and discard those fish that belong to the other player.

20 Interesting And Funny Reading Games For Kids

Reading is not a chore anymore for your kid, thanks to these games.

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Reading games for kids is an interesting way to enhance your child’s ability to focus. A child’s cognitive, emotional, and social development is promoted by reading skills. Usually, most kids acquire this fundamental skill between six and seven. However, a few may learn it earlier, at three to four years (1). Vocabulary and comprehension skills can be high in children who read from early childhood. These skills are needed for academic and professional success and personal development in the future. Read on to know more about the reading games that will entertain and also educate your kids.

Importance Of Reading For Children

Reading is an essential life skill that can help your child (2) (3)

learn and practice diction and intonation and promote speech development.
learn new words and their meanings, and use them in different scenarios.
understand the basics of grammar and promote language development.
improve their concentration and focus and enhance their overall brain function necessary for cognitive development.
develop their imagination and creativity.
learn about the world around them.
improve their reading comprehension skills necessary for learning concepts that promote academic development (4).
Encourage their curiosity into subjects that are new to them.

Reading games and activities in a group setting or with family can help promote your child’s socio-emotional development and turn them into a responsible and confident adult.

20 Reading Games For Children

You could play these age-specific reading games with your child to make reading fun and enjoyable.

1. Spot the alphabet

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The game helps your three-year-old identify and learn the letters of the alphabet, using a set of colorful flashcards.

Show any two flashcards to your child and ask them to find a common letter in the two cards.
Each pair of flashcards should have only one letter in common.
The child compares the two cards to identify and recognize the common letter using their recognition and perception skills.
Prompt your child to read the identified letter aloud to support speech and memory development.

Buy a Spot It! Alphabet card game or prepare one at home involving your three-year-old for more fun and joy.

2. Sequence letters

The joyful board game teaches phonics to children above four years, using colorful pictures. In the game, children get a board with printed pictures and a set of cards with letters written on them in uppercase and lowercase. Your child has to identify the picture, read the name of the object/thing aloud, and find a letter card that matches the sound of the word’s first letter. Regular practice of phonics helps develop your child’s vocabulary and spelling skills and hones their critical thinking skills.

3. Charades for kids

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Charades is a fun group activity for children above four years of age. To play the game, you will need some plain papers and markers/pens to make chits.

Make chits and write a word on each. Keep the children’s age and reading abilities in mind while writing the words.
Fold the chits and put them in a bowl.
Divide the children into two teams of three players each.
Ask each team to take turns to send a teammate to pick a chit from the bowl.
The child with the chit needs to act and give out clues to the word without uttering a word/making a sound, and their teammates have to guess the word.

Indulging in such activities can help improve their vocabulary skills, foster creativity, and provide ample opportunity for fun.

4. Scrabble boggle game

In this word-construction game, the child has to come up with as many words as possible by arranging and rearranging 16 letter cubes on a boggle grid within a set time. An electronic version of this game, known as scrabble flash, involves up to ten players, wherein they need to form words by swapping tiles. The word game could help improve your child’s vocabulary and spelling skills and hone their memory and logical thinking skills.

5. Junior scrabble

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Junior scrabble is an engaging board game for teaching word construction to five-year-olds. The game involves forming words by identifying the picture on the board and placing the letters within the crossword in a predetermined order. Engaging in this memory-boosting game can improve your child’s vocabulary and spelling skills. Buy a scrabble or make one at home for hours of fun and excitement.

6. Riddle treasure hunt

Riddle treasure hunt aims to enhance reading, interpretation, and comprehension skills by prompting children to solve riddles in order to find a hidden toy/goodie hamper. You can make several chits with riddles written on them and hide them across the house. Hand over the first riddle to the child and instruct them to find the other hidden chits to solve a series of riddles to reach the hidden gift. Reading and understanding the riddles can help them hone problem-solving and analytical thinking skills.

7. Snake and ladders with words

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The exciting DIY board game uses the rules of the classic snakes and ladders game to learn and remember words through visual perception. Take a snakes and ladders board and write age-appropriate and easy-to-understand words in each box using a pen/marker. The snakes and ladders board has 100 boxes to write 100 different words that you want your child to learn. Roll the dice and play the game as usual with an additional rule that requires your child to read aloud the word in which their counter lands.

8. Use the word

Train your child to read words and understand their proper usage in sentences with this unique game.

Prepare some flashcards with plain paper and write an age-appropriate word on each using a pen/marker.
Keep the cards on the table and ask your child to pick one card randomly.
The task is to read the word written on the flashcard aloud, say its meaning, and use it in a sentence as an example.

This game is ideal for children aged six years and above. It can help improve their reading and comprehension skills, develop their vocabulary, and encourage them to frame simple sentences.

9. Hopscotch spelling bee

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You can try this game with a large group of children, wherein each child represents a letter, and they all work together to form a word.

Draw four hopscotch courts on the floor. Each court should have seven different letters from A to Z.
Assign one letter to each child and make six kids stand at the edge of each box.
Now, say a word aloud, for instance, “ARMOR,” and instruct the children to hop on the letter assigned to them in the order as they come in the word”ARMOR.”
The child assigned with the letter “A” should hop first followed by the child with the letter “R,” and so on.

Involving your child in such activities can help develop their vocabulary and spelling skills.

10. I spy with words

It is an ideal reading game for six-year-olds. The game can help develop their reading skills, boost memory, and build focus and concentration.

Select a story from a reading material, such as a storybook or comic.
Based on the story, prepare a few questions having one- or two-word answers.
Ask the child to read the story thoroughly within a given time to answer correctly.
Once they have read the story, instruct them to take turns to ask each other questions.
Every question should start with the phrase, “I spy something that I can … (kick/drink/eat).”
The other students should guess the answer using the hints given in the text that they have read.

11. Word bingo

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Children above five years of age can play this game to foster phonemic awareness, the ability to identify individual sounds in spoken words, and identify simple rhyming words.

Paste different cutouts of words on a chart paper.
Stick the chart paper to the wall, and ask your child some questions, such as “Which word on the chart rhymes with the word cat?” Or “What word rhymes with the word bowl?”
The child has to identify the word in the chart with the word mentioned in the question.

Playing such reading games can help fine-tune your child’s perception and recognition skills, develop vocabulary, and promote logical thinking.

12. Take turns reading

In this game, you and your child take turns reading the paragraphs of a story. You can choose a storybook that your child likes to read or use their schoolbook. Help your child read with proper pronunciation and intonation. Take pauses after every three to four paragraphs, to discuss what the child has understood. It will help keep the child remain alert and focused.

13. Word search

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Word search crosswords or puzzles involve tracing hidden words from letters arranged vertically, horizontally, and diagonally in a grid. Children between the ages of five and six can begin solving word search crosswords/puzzles to combat boredom and develop their vocabulary, reading, and recognition skills. Encourage your child to practice word search by participating in online/offline games or print some worksheets.

14. Fluency target

Draw four circles on the ground, each a feet apart from the other. Ask your child to stand within the first circle and read a paragraph within the given time. If the child reads it with proper pronunciation and intonation within the set time, they can pass the first circle and move to the second. If not, they have to reread the paragraph and try to do better. Guide your child on the mistakes that they make and hand-hold them to improve. The game can help develop the reading skills of children aged seven years and above.

15. Pirate island

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It is an exciting board game for two to four players where the participants have to read short passages and answer questions on some details given on the board. The children need to answer each question to reach the treasure chest. You can buy this game or prepare one at home. For added fun and excitement, set a time limit to reach the treasure chest. Involving children aged above seven years in such games can help develop their reading and comprehension skills.

16. Word towers

Involve your six-year-old child in this entertaining game and help them frame sentences/phrases using blocks that have words written/pasted/printed on them.

Take some plain white stickers and write nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, sight words, etc., on them.
Paste one sticker on each Lego or Duplo block in random order.
Once done, pass the blocks to your child and instruct them to make a tower.
The tower should be built in such a way that it looks and reads like a sentence or phrase.

Engaging a child in such activities can help enhance their cognitive abilities and foster creative thinking.

17.

Bringing stories to life

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Assign a story from a storybook, comic, or textbook to your child, and ask them to prepare a skit. Provide them with all the necessary props that they would need to perform the skit efficiently. Involving children above six years of age in such activities can help improve their reading and comprehension skills, promote language development, foster creativity, and develop public speaking abilities.

18. Reading paintings

This artful and engaging activity provides an opportunity to display one’s reading and comprehension skills through painting.

Provide a sketchbook, colors, and a printed passage to your child.
Guide your child to read the passage/paragraph and recreate it in painting in their sketchbook using colors within the given time.
Discuss the painting with your child to help them express feelings, emotions, and thoughts.

Such activities can help foster creativity, develop emotional intelligence, and hone your child’s reading and comprehension skills.

19. Dear diary

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Keeping a diary can be an enriching experience, allowing children above seven years of age to express their feelings, thoughts, and experiences. Motivate your child to jot down their thoughts in the diary daily and read it aloud the next day with you. Reading a diary with a parent strengthens the parent-child bond, enables self-expression, and simultaneously improves their reading and writing skills.

20. Put the story together

Organizing information in a logical sequence is an important part of active reading for children above six years of age. In this interesting and engaging activity, your child needs to sort and arrange the story pieces written on different flashcards in a sequence to complete the story. Practicing story sequencing can enhance their reading comprehension skills and strengthen their logical reasoning and analytical thinking skills. You can get story sequencing worksheets online or prepare some at home for a great learning experience.

1. How to encourage my child to read?

The best way to encourage your child is by creating the right atmosphere to read at home. So set up a cozy reading corner and surround your children with reading material. Lead by example and set aside time for reading every day. Moreover, avoid reading materials that are beyond your child’s reading abilities.

2. How do you make reading practice more fun for kids?

Create a fun reading space. Buy picture books and give them books they would love. For example, buy books about their favorite characters or animals. You may read books together and act out the story to capture their interest.

Reading games for kids help enhance a child’s focus and reading skills. Reading helps children learn the pronunciation of new words, speech and language development, and cognitive development. Spot the alphabet, sequence letters, junior scrabble, riddle treasure hunt, and word bingo are some of the interesting reading games for young children. You may choose the game according to the child’s age and grip on the language. For example, you can use alphabet games for preschoolers and more complicated games and activities such as writing a letter or diary or tough spelling for older children.

Key Pointers

Reading games focus on enhancing speech and improving the child’s chances of learning new words.
Charades, scrabble, snakes and ladders with words are examples of some fun reading games for children.
Reading games improve a child’s vocabulary and cognition and contribute to academic development in the long run.

References:

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1. Helping Your Child Learn to Read; Healthy Children; American Academy of Pediatrics
2. Reading Benefits for Kids and Teens; Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
3. The Value of Children’s Literature; Luther College
4. Sait Akbaşh, et al.; The Effect of Reading Comprehension on the Performance in Science and Mathematics; Education Resource Information Center

Learning to read in the game: 12 games

For those who need to find the answer to the question How to learn to read? today prepared a wonderful material by Maria Kostyuchenko, the leader of the Develop column. Masha is sure that there is the best approach to learning to read - learning by playing. So in today's issue - no less than 12 games for learning to read!

When to start teaching a child to read - and how? This question sooner or later arises in front of almost every mother. Now there are a lot of methods for teaching reading: whole words, warehouses, letters, etc. etc. Each mother chooses her own way of introducing the child to the wonderful world of books. But there is nothing more effective than learning to read through the game! Therefore, today I want to show you some ideas on how to make the process of getting to know letters and words an exciting process. How to learn to read in the game? There are many, many ways!

Letter, appear!

You can bring letters to life, make them tactile, make up stories about them or think of something else. Or you can use magic. Make 33 cards (choose the size yourself) on each of which write a letter with a white wax pencil or a regular candle. Give the child a card (one or more - it depends on your plan for getting to know the letters), paints, a brush and offer to paint the card with the color he likes. When the child begins to draw, the letter written with wax will not be painted over, but will appear, thereby surprising and delighting the child.

Find the letter

Having learned to recognize letters, you need to learn how to match letters and words. An interesting game with cards will help you with this. For example, you make several cards with the image of objects in advance (they should be simple and understandable) and write 2-3-4 letters next to the image of the object. The child is asked to choose the letter that begins the word on the card. He can paint over it, circle it, put a beautiful stone on it, attach a clothespin, etc. The main thing is that the child understands what is drawn on the card. For example, you give a card with a picture of a bullfinch and thought that the child should find the letter "C", but he can regard the picture as "Bird" and look for the letter "P". In such cases, you must warn him in advance that you want him to understand what kind of bird it is and find the first letter of its name.

Stained-glass windows - from "A" to "Z"?

Learning to read is going very well during creative games. Great idea - a stained glass letter. Take a sheet of paper and draw a letter on it so that it can be painted over. Take a ruler and draw a sheet of paper so that visually it consists of pieces. Put dots on the pieces that belong to the letter and invite the child to color this unusual pattern. All pieces with dots are the colors of one shade, and everything without dots is the colors of a different shade. So your child will once again fix the image of the letter, train his hand and learn how to accurately paint over the pictures, as well as get acquainted with the shades of the same color. For example, he will paint over a letter with shades of orange: peach, pumpkin, honey, copper, amber, etc.

Learning to read by stringing beads?

Let's move on from letters to the formation of words. A great option for games where the child not only learns to read, but also develops fine motor skills. Write a word for the child (it is better to start with small words), you can use a picture. Lay out cubes-beads with letters in front of him (if there are no such cubes, then you can either make them yourself from a self-hardening mass for modeling or from salt dough, and you can also use cards with letters in which holes will be made with a hole punch), chenille wire (you can just string). And now show how, by stringing letters on a wire, to assemble a word.

"Out of Nothing" Reading Trainer

A similar game, only made much easier and with what we have at hand. You will need lids for this! We stick letters on the lids (or write with a marker if the lids are white) and begin to put words out of them!

Attach the word!

The next step is to insert words into sentences. Take a strip of cardboard, write on it the beginning of a sentence that will work for any subject, for example, "I see ...." or "I'm playing with...". Put cards with the image of objects in front of the child (they must be signed, if the child begins to read, then images are not needed, only words are needed), your offer and a clothespin. Invite the child to change words with a clothespin and read the resulting sentence.

Missing letter!

When we learned to read, it's time to learn to recognize words, even if they have missing letters. Make cards with words where 1 or more letters are missing (you can adjust the difficulty level yourself), 33 clothespins, at the ends of which a letter will be attached. Invite the child to read the word and find the clothespin with the missing letter.

Houses of words

We are reaching a new level and learning how to make sentences on our own. And the usual block constructor will help us with this. The smaller the child, the larger the details should be. We measure blocks, make cards with words, stick cards to the constructor and we can build whole houses from words.

Puzzles for those who are learning to read

Another great game is the reading puzzle. You will need several cards of the same size. a square of cards, on each card there is a word on two sides, and pictures on the other two. You have to match the pictures with the corresponding words.

A letter… “in a haystack”

When a child learns to read simple words, you can complicate the task for him and ask him to look for his words among a random set of letters. To learn to read even better, the child must learn to see the word he needs and read it, even if there are extra objects around the word.

We are not bored with fables

How to learn to read - this task is no longer worth it? Do you already know how to read? Excellent. Let's start having fun. Children are very fond of fairy tales. But writing them is not so easy. To stir up your imagination, make a notebook for reading fables. Take an ordinary notebook with springs, cut each page into 3 parts and write a word on each resulting leaf. The main thing is to write on some pages always the subject on the other predicate, so that they add up to sentences. Flip through the pages, get new offers, compose fables. For example, you can get “dad sews a cloud” - and so on.

How to learn to read… in a fairy tale?

And the last idea of games for learning to read today is fairy tales with reading elements. The first fairy tales can re-enter your life if you combine storytelling with reading. Replace the main characters with words, swap them, get new stories. I am sure that every mother has her own interesting games for teaching a child to read. Share links to your games in the comments and let's teach our children to read fun together! Review author: Maria Kostyuchenko Title image source: wallpaperez.org

Didactic games for teaching preschool children to read. | Card file for teaching literacy (senior, preparatory group):

Card file of didactic games, exercises for teaching reading to children of senior preschool age

the sign system for the child does not have any visual associations, as well as painstaking training in the skills of merging letters into syllables and words when reading.

Therefore, the system of teaching reading should be built taking into account the leading activity of the age, which is the game activity. Using didactic games, you can make the process of learning to read not only effective and simple, but also interesting for the child.

Didactic (educational) games are one of the forms of an adult's educational influence on a child and, at the same time, the main activity of an older preschooler.

Thus, the didactic game has two goals:

teaching - pursued by an adult;

play, for which the child acts.

It is necessary that these goals complement each other and ensure the assimilation of the program material. Therefore, tasks aimed at developing the skill of sound analysis and synthesis, teaching reading, speech development should be given in a playful way.

Didactic games should be built according to the following principles:

D/i should be based on program material;

The purpose of objects, pictures, aids, the meaning of questions, the conditions of the game should be clear and understandable to children;

The aids used by educators during child care must be visually attractive;

The conditions of the game and the number of aids used in it should ensure that all children are involved in the process.

Older preschoolers have a hard time learning abstract concepts. It is not easy for a child to realize what a sound, syllable, word, sentence is, since this age is characterized by visual-effective thinking. Visualization and play are important here.

Games for learning to read can be systematized depending on the learning objectives. They are divided into the following blocks:

I. Games of the preparatory stage - teaching the skills of sound analysis and synthesis.

This block includes the following games:

Exercise "Songs of sounds" - fairy tales about how sounds went to each other in

guests [to] [o], etc.;

The game "Mom's bag"

Purpose: to exercise children in naming words for a given sound.

Material: not required

Game progress: The teacher says that mother came from the store and brought products that have the sounds [m] and [m] or some other in the name. Children name the words: oil. Milk, etc., you can use pictures as a clue.

The game "Extra Word"

Purpose: to learn to distinguish sounds, to learn to identify sounds in a word, to develop auditory attention.

Material: subject pictures (mountain, burrow, ear, goat, bow, cap, mole, cat, honey, walrus, fishing rod, bouquet, heron, daughter, nail). Game progress:

You choose a word, for example, MOUNTAIN, and repeat it several times, and then say another, similar in sound (KORA) instead. Say: MOUNTAIN, MOUNTAIN, KORA, MOUNTAIN. The task of the child is to hear and name this other - superfluous - word. You need to speak at a speed of about one word per second.

If the child makes a mistake: pronounce the words at a slower pace, increase the number of repetitions of the correct version of the word (MOUNTAIN-MOUNTAIN-MOUNTAIN-KORA-MOUNTAIN-MOUNTAIN) or try to exaggerate the sounds that distinguish the words: G-MOUNTAIN, K-KORA. To facilitate the task, you can also show the child a picture of one object from a pair of named words - "an unnecessary word" (in the above example, you need to show a picture of a mountain).

To organize the game, you can use the tasks from this list:

NORA, NORA, PORA, NORA.

EAR, EAR, EAR, HAIR.

SPIDER, GOAT, GOAT, GOAT.

BOW, BOW, PLOW, BOW.

CAP, TURNIP, CAP, CAP.

MOLE, MOLE, MOUTH, MOLE.

CAT, YEAR, CAT, CAT.

HONEY, HONEY, HONEY, ICE.

Walalus, Korzh, Walalus, Walrus.

ROD, ROD, ROD, ROD.

BOUQUET, BOUQUET, BOUQUET, COUPLET.

HERON, HERON, DROP, HERON.

HOUSE, HOUSE, HOUSE, VOL.

DAUGHTER, POINT, DAUGHTER, DAUGHTER.

CANE, NAILS, NAILS, NAILS.

Game "Tell me a word"

Purpose: to exercise in isolating the first sound in a word.

Material: poems in which one word does not agree.

Course of the game: The teacher reads poetry, where he does not finish the word, the children name it and highlight the first sound in the word.

For example:

He is both a wolf and Santa Claus,

And makes the guys laugh to tears,

last time was a teacher, The day after tomorrow - a machinist. He must know a lot, Because he .... (artist)

Here the driver turns the round wheel early in the morning ... (steering wheel)

I don’t fly to a warm land,

I live here, under the roof.

Chick-chirp! Don't be shy!

I am experienced ... (Sparrow).

It rides on two wheels and does not skid on slopes.

And there is no petrol in the tank. This is my ... (bike)

"Mikhail was playing football and scored against the goal ... (goal)

The forest telegraph operator is knocking:

Hello, thrush-buddy!" And he signs ... (woodpecker)

The foal grew up every day and became ... (horse)

He slept in a fur coat all winter, and when he woke up, he began to roar.

This is a forest animal - ... (bear)

Snow is melting, a stream is flowing on the branches full of ... (rooks)

Game: "Car / Plane or train" ("sound box" according to the Montessori method M. )

Purpose: to determine the position of a sound in a word

Material: a picture of a car (airplane or train; box) divided into three parts.

Game progress: Children have cards with pictures in which

a given sound occurs, for example, [y]: ducklings, snail, kangaroo, watermelon, etc. Children name the word -

picture, determine the place of the given sound in word, give its characteristic

(vowel, consonant hard or soft) and lay out a chip on a typewriter or

on a plane/train, or in a box in the desired part.

The game "We are going on a trip"

Purpose: to exercise in isolating the first sound in a word; learn to choose words for a given sound.

Material: 2 painted suitcases, on which the letters 'C' are glued on: 'S' on one, 'Sh' on the other. Pictures depicting items of clothing in which these letters are present.

Game progress: The teacher says that Sasha and Shura are going on a trip and they need help to pack their things. Sasha collects things with the sound "S" in a suitcase, and Shura with the sound "Sh".

Game "Lost animals"

Purpose: to exercise in the differentiation of vowels and consonants by ear, in highlighting the first sound in a word.

Material: pictures of animals, three houses (red, blue and green)

Game progress: children take a picture of an animal, determine the first sound in the word and in which house it lives. The color of the house corresponds to the characteristics of the sound: red is a vowel, blue is a hard consonant, green is a soft consonant.

Sound football game

Purpose: to learn to distinguish sounds, to learn to determine the presence of given sounds in words, to develop attention.

Material: object pictures from any board game or toy. If in the words you named, the child hears the sound that you agree with him, the baby must catch the word - clap his hands. Name the words in which the sound is at the beginning, at the end, in the middle.

Another time, place pictures from board games or toys in front of your child. Offer to choose those that have the sound you specified.

Tips: Be careful when choosing tasks. Remember that the easiest way to hear vowel sounds is A, O, U, I, S, "bright" consonant sounds such as M, N, L, R, it is easier for children to distinguish from other consonants - Ш, С, Р. Do not let's do tasks with E, E, Yu, I. The letters E, E, Yu, I can mean two sounds.

In order for the child to cope with tasks more successfully, before choosing words, give him the opportunity to pronounce the given sound several times, to hear the sound in his own performance.

Such a game forms an important skill for further learning to read - the ability to determine the presence or absence of a sound in a word.

Option:

Make it harder. You can catch only those words in which the given sound is at the beginning of the word (or at the end of the word). At the same time, try not to offer your child words in which the first or last sound is not clearly heard. For example, WINDOW (we hear the first sound A).

II. Games and exercises introducing children to letters

The game "Cut letters"

Purpose: to promote the memorization of letters and the development of visual-active thinking, the prevention of errors in writing letters (mirror writing, writing upside down, erroneous writing instead of a given letter similar in appearance).

Material: cards with letters, cut into two parts (then you can cut the same letters further, so that you get 3-5 parts).

How to play: Invite the child to collect letters by presenting the parts in different ways:

parts of one letter;

parts of one letter + one part of another letter;

parts of 2-3 letters at the same time.

Pay special attention to the selection of letters for the simultaneous folding of two or more letters. First, select letters for such a task, the difference in appearance of which is obvious, for example: A and P, C and I. When the child has mastered this level, you can present parts of letters that are similar in spelling at the same time, for example: P and B, W and E, H and P.

Don't forget to name or ask the child what the letter is! Such a game is very similar in principle to the split pictures that all preschoolers love to play.

Game "Tangle the letters" or "Which letters are hidden?"

Purpose: consolidation of knowledge of the image of letters, development of visual perception.

Material : Sheets with painted "patterns" of letters.

Game progress: Invite the child to guess which letters are hidden in these pictures. If the tasks are drawn on separate sheets, then the child, turning the sheet in different directions, will be able to find more letters. If the child cannot recognize which0007

or a letter, circle it with the blunt end of a pencil, this will help him to distinguish the letter from the general background.

The number of tasks created like these can only be limited by your desire.

Builders/technicians game

Purpose: development of imagination, prevention of mistakes when writing letters. Game progress: Write on a piece of paper only the elements of the letters. Have the child repair/build or guess which letters should have been written.

You can ask the child to name all the letters that contain this element if there are several answers.

If the child knows how to write, you can offer him to add unfinished letters:

The game "Encrypted letter"

Purpose: children are offered cards with numbered dots and an algorithm. At the teacher's command, they take a marker and perform an algorithm, for example, by connecting the numbers: 1-3, 2-4, 2-5. They call the letter that turned out.

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Mirror game

Material: cardboard, scissors, pencil/felt pen/pen.

How to play: Prepare cards of the same size (approximately 8x12 cm) at the rate of 2 pieces for the letters the child has learned. Write 1 letter on each card. Letters must be written in the correct and mirror ("back to front") image.

Place a pair of cards with the same letter in front of the child. Please choose the correct letter. Organize an independent check of the task by the child: give him the opportunity to compare the selected letter with the letters from the "ABC" or "Primer". Be sure to ask the name of the letter.
1. "Letter Lotto"
Purpose: to memorize letters, develop attention, learn to identify the first sound in words.

Material: drawing paper, ruler, pencil, colored pencils or felt-tip pens, object pictures (from board games or cut out from magazines), pouch.

Divide sheets of paper into 6-8 rectangles of the same size. Write one letter in each rectangle. Write letters in large, bright colors. From board games or magazines, pick up pictures whose names begin with letters written on sheets of paper. Game progress:

Invite the child to choose one of the cards with letters and find the corresponding picture for each letter from those prepared for the game. The letter must be covered with a picture.

When the child learns to find the right pictures, you can play this game with the whole family. The rules of the game are simple. Each member of the family chooses a card with a letter. One of the family members is the host. He takes out subject pictures from the bag one at a time, asks: "Who needs ...?" (pronounces the name of the object shown in the picture). The one who has the corresponding letter takes the picture for himself, covering the letter with it. The first one to cover all the letters on their card wins.
1. Game “What word did the artist want to write?” (compose by first letters)
Purpose: to exercise children in isolating the first sound in words and composing new words from them.

Material: picture cards, the first sound of which is the letter of a new word.

Game progress: The teacher says that an artist came and wrote a word, but it is unusual, because it consists of pictures. You and I need to read this word, for this we will determine the first sound in each picture, write the letter on the board, and then read it.
1. Games for children to practice dividing words into syllables
1. Game “Put the animals into houses”
Purpose: to practice dividing words into syllables 3; sets of pictures of animals.

Game progress: the teacher says that the animals are lost. Everyone needs to find their own home. To do this, you need to divide the word-picture into syllables and if there is 1 syllable in the word, then the beast lives in the 1st house, if there are 2 syllables, then in the 2nd, three - in the 3rd house. There are many variants of this game: a train, a pyramid, etc.
1. Game "Write a word without letters"
Purpose: to learn to distinguish the structure of words (syllables), to develop attention, to develop fine motor skills.

Material: paper, colored pencils or felt-tip pens, subject pictures from

any board games.

Game progress:

Tell your child that words can be written without even knowing the letters. Write the word PONY - draw two arcs (two caps / two bumps), while "writing" the word, pronounce it in syllables. Give another example - write the word DOG in the same way.

Have your child learn to write words without letters. Help him if he has difficulty dividing into syllables. Be sure to pronounce the word in syllables at the same time as writing the word.
- another time lay out the subject pictures on the table. Invite the child to find pictures on which "you can put on two hats" (words in which two syllables are depicted in the diagram by two arcs), "you can wear three hats", find a picture
that "enough for one hat."

For a change, you can walk words, jump, slap, stomp, draw with dashes or dots.

Kids love this game. It not only teaches to see the syllabic structure of the word, but also attracts to the process of learning to read.
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Games to teach reading

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1. Concentration

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2. Go fish

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20 Reading Games For Children

1. Spot the alphabet

2. Sequence letters

3. Charades for kids

4. Scrabble boggle game

5. Junior scrabble

6. Riddle treasure hunt

7. Snake and ladders with words

8. Use the word

9. Hopscotch spelling bee

10. I spy with words

11. Word bingo

12. Take turns reading

13. Word search

14. Fluency target

15. Pirate island

16. Word towers

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18. Reading paintings

19. Dear diary

20. Put the story together

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