Kids reading comprehension games
Free Reading Comprehension Games for Kids | And Next Comes L
Looking for ways to improve your child's comprehension? Then try these awesome free reading comprehension games for kids. They're great for working on a variety of important reading skills.
If you have a hyperlexic child, then you know that comprehension is an area that you need to be keeping an eye on and working on continually. Sure you could keep asking generic comprehension questions. Or doing worksheets. But, let's be honest, that gets boring quickly.
Building these skills doesn't need to be boring. I promise. That's where these reading games come in. They making working on comprehension so much more interesting and fun. After all, I'm clearly a big fan of play based learning activities.
So let's dig into some of these awesome - and free! - reading comprehension games for kids. You're going to (hopefully!) love these interactive games and ideas. They're great for a wide variety of ages too.
Awesome Reading Comprehension Games for Kids
1. Free Printable Reading Comprehension Dice Games - A set of four dice games that target a variety of skills such as inferences and WH questions. There is one to play before reading, one for fiction, one for nonfiction, and one for after reading.
2. Free Reading Comprehension Cootie Catchers/Fortune Tellers from The Classroom Game Nook - I don't know about you, but I loved these things as a kid! There are 4 different fortune tellers in this pack. They all have prompts and questions to help kids review a book or even just a chapter of a book. This freebie will help kids review the setting, plot, characters, problem, and solution of whatever text they're working on.
3. Follow the Path Gross Motor Reading Comprehension Game from Dabblingmomma - I love this homemade gross motor board game activity idea! It does take a bit of prep to set up and make, but I think it's such a fun way to work on comprehension.
4. Free Nonfiction Comprehension Game from Miss DeCarbo on Teachers Pay Teachers - This game has both a group version and solo version.
It's designed to help kids review a nonfiction book or text.
5. Reading Comprehension Beach Ball Game from Miss Thrify SLP - You'll need a beach ball and a permanent marker for this idea. Simply write some comprehension questions and prompts on the beach ball. Then toss it to your child and encourage them to answer whatever question or prompt they see in front of them when they catch the ball.
6. Free List of Questions for Jenga Reading Comprehension Game from Singing in 2nd on Teachers Pay Teachers - Turn the game of Jenga (or Tumbling Towers if you have a cheap dollar store knockoff) into a fun way to work on comprehension skills. Use this free printable list to guide you as you play.
7. Free 4th & 5th Grade Reading Comprehension Games Starter Pack from Jennifer Findley on Teachers Pay Teachers - This game pack includes game boards, spinners, puzzles, and color by reading activities. I love the variety in this pack!
8. Free Comprehension Tic Tac Toe Game from Danielle Vanek on Teachers Pay Teachers - This game is geared towards 4th grade, but she does offer ones for different grades as well.
Use it to work on comprehension at the end of any novel.
9. Free Reading Bingo Game from Jennifer K. on Teachers Pay Teachers - Exactly what it sounds like. A bingo game to work on reading comprehension skills.
10. Free Printable Reading Comprehension Spinner from Welcome to Room 36 - A simple game spinner to check comprehension after reading.
11. Free Jeopardy Game for Comprehension Strategies from Colleen McAndrew on Teachers Pay Teachers - You're likely familiar with the game of Jeopardy. Well, this game goes over specific reading comprehension strategies. It covers topics such as finding the main idea, problem and solution, logical order, summarizing, and finding the author's purpose.
12. Free Comprehension Games from Erika Gascho on Teachers Pay Teachers - This game comes with three different game boards and 36 questions. The questions cover a wide variety of comprehension strategies.
13. Free Digital End of the Year Activities Reading Comprehension & Inferencing Game from Cultivating Lifetime Learners on Teachers Pay Teachers - Here's a fun mystery game for kids.
The goal is to figure out who stole the painting. Meanwhile, kids will be practicing their inferencing skills, which is an important part of comprehension.
14. Free Reading Skills Dice Game from Adventures with Miss B on Teachers Pay Teachers - This game meant for kids in Kindergarten, grade 1, and grade 2 to play after reading a picture book. Simply roll the die to practice different comprehension strategies.
15. Free Reading Skills Dice Game for Older Kids from Adventures with Miss B on Teachers Pay Teachers - This game is similar to the one listed above, but is geared towards older kids. Specifically, it's for kids in grades 4 to 7.
That's it! Which of these reading comprehension games will you try first?
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10 cool games that will teach your child to read quickly and without errors
How to teach a child to read confidently, fluently, correctly? Interest and captivate! We offer a selection of games from the teacher, speed reading and memory development instructor Guzel Abdulova.
Gyuzel Abdulova, neuropsychologist, teacher, speed reading and memory development coach, head of the Eidos Center for Intellectual Technologies
These exciting games will not only arouse interest in reading, but also help develop memory, attention and the level of understanding of texts. Play - reading, read - playing!
"Racing"
What should be done? Invite the child to read his favorite poem several times, each time increasing the speed and power of the voice.
Purpose. The exercise significantly increases the speed of reading, improves reading technique and promotes the development of speech.
"Foreigner"
What should be done? We read the words, highlighting the last syllable, as if with a "foreign" accent. Reading text or columns of words. For example:
There is healthy mind in a healthy body.
Not the one who is RIGHT who is strong, but the one who is honest.
A tree is supported by roots, and a person is supported by friends.
And Vaska listens and eats.
Elbow is close, but you won't bite
The cuckoo praises the rooster for praising the cuckoo.
Alone in the field is not a warrior.
Purpose. This exercise helps children get rid of the habit of swallowing endings. It is quite tedious, so we complete it for 30 seconds.
"Voices"
What should be done? The task is to read the text in the form of a person or animal, cartoon or literary character. Discuss with the child how Baba Yaga or a mouse, a hare or a wolf would read this text.
Purpose. The exercise improves the reading technique, helps to get the kid interested in reading, to show that it is fun and interesting.
"Funny Pictures"
What should be done? For this exercise, you need to match text with a large number of pictures.
Cut the pictures and mix. The task of the child is to arrange the pictures in order to restore the sequence of events.
Option 1. Read the text and put the pictures in order.
Option 2. Tell a story from pictures. Then read the text and compare your version with the one proposed.
Purpose. The exercise contributes to the development of semantic reading and a deeper understanding of what is read.
"Magic puzzles"
What should be done? Cut the text into pieces-puzzles and mix. We invite the child to collect them and read the restored text.
Purpose. The exercise is quite difficult, and memory, attention, and thinking are involved. The skill of semantic reading is being improved. At first, you need to choose familiar texts, better - fairy tales.
“The word is lost”
What should be done? Read the text aloud, skipping words.
The child must understand which word was missed.
Target . The exercise contributes to the development of attention, the formation of the skill of semantic guessing and a deeper understanding of what is read.
"First and last"
What should I do? The child reads the text, saying aloud only the first and last letters in the word. Then he should tell what he read about.
Purpose. The exercise trains concentration and quick switching of attention, teaches you to perform several actions at the same time: read, understand, memorize.
Head-tail
What should I do? Option 1. An adult reads the beginning of the word, and the child must find the "tail", that is, the end of this word. To do this, you need to quickly scan the entire text, find the word and read the ending.
Option 2. The adult reads the beginning of the sentence, and the child must find its ending.
Purpose. This is a good training for the skills of "scanning" the text with the eyes, concentration and semantic reading.
"Read and count"
What to do? The child must not only read and understand the text, but also count the words. Naturally, for starters, you need small texts - from 10-20 to 40-50 words.
Target. This exercise helps to develop attention and better understand the text.
"Shooting a movie"
What to do? Ask the child to imagine a movie based on the text. We help with leading questions, find out what he sees and feels when he reads. The task is not only to understand what the text is about, but also to hear sounds, feel smells, tastes, and experience the emotions of the characters. The child must answer your questions and retell the text.
Purpose. We develop figurative memory, speech, retelling skill.
Thanks to the use of the method of co-sensation, children easily remember and tell the text with all the details, even come up with details.
G. Abdulova “We read after the ABC: we develop speed reading”
It is important to teach a child to read correctly. The book by an experienced neuropsychologist, speed reading trainer and head of the Superbrain School of Intellectual Development Gyuzel Abdulova contains interesting and fun exercises that will help a child learn to read fluently without mistakes and hesitations. And although this book is designed for children of primary school age, it will certainly be interesting for parents to study: try to quickly read the text upside down or find a few words in a whole sea of scattered letters.
See also :
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How to teach your child to read confidently: 5 tips for parents
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letter and reading games, reading comprehension, books for beginner readers: janemouse — LiveJournal My son took a long time to learn to read,
he knew all the letters, but he couldn't read long books almost up to 8 years old.
Now he reads all day,
and this is his biggest passion, stronger than Lego, board games and cartoons.
However, we went to this for a very long time, and while he was small, I managed to come up with a lot of games and manuals that could help children start reading.
You can read about how children learn this complex skill on Marina Aromshtam's papmambook website,
there are a lot of interesting thoughts,
and good collections of ideas and books.
My favorite story about children is:
Grishka adored listening to books at the age of one and a half or two years,
he liked to look at and discuss pictures,
and knew many books by heart.
It seemed to me that with such an interest in books and his craving for any new knowledge, he was about to start reading.
And indeed, Gris learned the letters in two and a half years.
And at the age of three he understood the idea of how words are made up of letters,
and could spell short words like CAT, FISH, HOUSE, KIT.
At that time I naively believed that a little more - and he would start reading by himself.
No matter how!
He read individual words, but stumbled over longer ones,
and had the impression that while he was reading the third syllable, he was already forgetting the first.
This went on for about four years.
Gris could read a short word or even a phrase, but he himself could not sit down with a book.
Some important elements in my head didn't ripen,
some connections didn't line up - I don't know.
And the second difficulty:
by that time he was listening to long and complicated books with sequels,
and could read something elementary, such as "dad eats soup."
It was difficult for him to immediately jump to reading interesting books suitable for his age,
he lacked the reading technique and perseverance to acquire this technique.
It is even more difficult for children who grow up in a bilingual environment.
