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Reading Games for Kindergarteners Online

Kindergartners – the most bubbly, enthusiastic learners of all! Always up for a challenge, looking for ways to enjoy themselves, and forever trying to make us happy.

Learning can sometimes be challenging with kindergartners, especially when building skills like reading, writing, and spelling. While the process in itself may not be troubling, children may lose motivation and run out of interest when things start getting predictable and monotonous.

That’s why reading games for kindergartners are always a hit. They teach, inspire, and help children enjoy the journey from start to end.

Learn more about SplashLearn’s array of fun practice and online learning resources that can grow your little bookworms.

Innovative Reading Approaches With Kindergarteners

Learning to read is a continuous process. After all, we’re still learning, aren’t we? To get your kindergartners started right, we have some of the best reading games for kindergartners and tricks that you can try:

Reading cups: Kindergartners are typically picking up two and three-letter words. Take some paper cups and write down two-letter word endings (like ‘ad,’ ‘in,’ ‘up,’ ‘ot,’ ‘ed’).

Now take some disposable spoons. Write down three-letter words like fin, pot, red, pup, and bad. You can make a whole list that ties into the word formations on the cups. Get your child to pick up a spoon, read the letters, and place the spoon in the right cup.

Remember that the child may only recognize letters at this stage and learn to match, but it is a strong start. As each word is identified, spend a moment reading the word and sounding it out. With repetition, children will learn to read these words as soon as they see them. Mission accomplished!

Running corners: This is an amazing game for children with boundless energy. It’s also a great way to build their appetite and get them to exhaust themselves. So many gains with one little game!

To play this game, stick some words randomly around the rooms. Use the walls, your furniture, just about anything. Ensure these are simple two-or three-letter words your child is familiar with. Now call out a word, and count slowly to ten. Before you have reached ten, your child needs to find the word and run and bring it to you. To start with, you may need to call out and show the word to your child. So, keep an extra set of cards handy.

Word flowers: Words often exist in groups. Look at this one – hat, pat, mat, cat, rat, fat. That’s only a few we have named. Make flowers with the theme (‘at,’ in this case) in the center, and write down the various words on the petals. This will make it very easy for children to understand sound groups and themes.
Picture grids: Pictures work brilliantly with children. That’s precisely why we have picture books and colorful illustrations for them. You can make pictures work for you too. Make a large grid with the words the child is learning to read. Now draw simple, colorful pictures of the words. Use a pointer to indicate a word, and ask your child to read it. Once they read it, they can find the picture and cover the word with it. The picture can also be a great clue for those struggling to identify the written word. You will notice the task getting easier as the child practices.

Teaching Your Kindergartener to Read

Reading involves various steps. Interestingly, it can happen in multiple ways. Have you noticed these patterns in your reader?

Reading by sight: Some children prefer looking at words and forming visual images of them. That’s how they read. They do not sound them. These are visual readers.
Reading by sound: Phonetic sounds and blends form the basis of these readers. Focusing on letter sounds and reading to them repeatedly is how they learn well.
Reading in combination: This is ideally how reading occurs. We use sounds for phonetic words and visual reading for sight words.

Now that we know our readers, we need to follow certain steps:

Begin gradually. Introduce letters, build slowly into two-letter words, and finally three-letter words. You may notice your child being comfortable only around certain words, and that’s ok. There’s a lifetime of learning left for them.
Repeat as often as you can. You will have to take it slow. Although we are using the simplest of words, this is the most challenging stage because your child is learning a whole new skill.
Revisit concepts. Children can forget when they are not in touch. Even after you have made some progress, come back to previously taught letters and sounds, so children stay in touch.

Supporting your Kindergartners

Children feel a host of emotions as they learn – they can begin with hesitation, excitement, or even fear. As they go along, they may feel interested, challenged, afraid, anxious, or even enthused. How a child experiences reading is essentially the result of how the parent or teacher goes about the entire process. Here are some things we strongly urge:

Be very patient
Motivate your child, whether they are right or wrong
Give them feedback, so they know how they are doing
Make them collaborators in the process. Discuss the next letter or sound, so they feel they have a say
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In this material, we have collected for you 10 psychological games and exercises aimed at improving relationships with others. Their implementation does not require additional props, and the rules are very easy to remember or modify so that the game does not bother the children even after a month.

1. Wizard game

The main purpose of is to build trust within the group. nine0003

Game progress : all the children stand in a circle, putting their hands on each other's shoulders. One of the children is chosen as a "wizard", the teacher blindfolds him and transfers him to another place in the circle. Now other children are already standing next to the child: touching their shoulders with his hands, the “wizard” must say who it is. The teacher asks the guys to keep quiet while guessing so that the “magic” does not dissipate.

2. Game "Get up, I'm looking at you!"

Main target - develop mutual understanding between children.

Game progress : The teacher leads first to show the rules. Everyone sits in a row, the driver comes forward, looks around at all the children, and then stops looking at someone for 2-3 seconds. Whoever the host is now looking at should stand up and smile. All the children take turns leading to learn to understand and feel the gestures and articulation of others.

3. Game "Nature is sad"

The main goal of is to develop the ability to sympathize and help.

Game in progress.
Educator: Do you cry when you are offended?
Children: Yes, sometimes!
Educator: do you think nature can cry if someone offends her?
Children: probably!
Educator: it’s raining in the fall, did someone offend nature?

Further, the facilitator invites the children to discuss why nature can cry and how it could be offended. For a change, you can choose not abstract phenomena, but trees or flowers. Children should offer various options: how to take pity on nature and help her. During the discussion, the facilitator asks if it is possible to feel sorry for his friend in the same way if he was offended. Children come to the conclusion that empathy and support is not difficult. nine0003

4. Game "Good Magical Beast"

The main goal of is to develop the ability to cooperate and work together.

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5. Evil paw game

The main goal of is to develop children's self-control skills in situations of conflict.

Game progress .
Leading: a long time ago, a small, but very harmful and evil paw lived in the city. She pushed the children, took away toys and pinched them. But the good guys managed to re-educate her. Let's try it too!

Children take turns sitting on a chair in the center of the circle and showing the Evil Paw - they squeeze their hand tightly, finger it. Further, all the children are invited to discuss in what situations the paw could be evil, and whether their own hands have ever been so. At the end of the discussion, the children come to the conclusion that the Evil Paw must be driven away, because no one will be friends with such a paw. nine0003

At the command of the leader, all the children immediately depict Evil paws, tensing their muscles, twisting their fingers and moving them. And after the teacher’s words “The paw has become kind!”, The children relax their hand. The game can be played after all conflict situations in the group.

6. The game "Offended Bunny"

The main goal of is to develop the ability to sympathize and love others

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7. The game "Small circle - big circle"

The main goal is to develop in children the ability to cooperate.

Game progress : the leader and the children form a large circle, holding hands. At the command of the teacher, it is necessary to make the largest circle without breaking hands. Then the smallest one. You can try: the longest, the highest (jumping), the lowest (sit down), the most smiling (smiling), the most cheerful (laughing). The main thing is to learn how to do it all together and keep the circle intact. nine0003

8. Magic bubbles game

The main goal is to show children that love is magic.

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Educator: Now imagine that there is a lot of magic and love inside you! Breathe them into each bubble. Imagine what you love: mom, flowers, animals, friends, the whole world! Let our magic bubbles scatter in different directions, taking our magic with them! nine0003

9. Game "Sit down if you..."

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Host: Let's make sure it's true! Let those who love . .. chocolate now stand up and take the place of another!

Children get up and move to the vacant seats. nine0003

The teacher offers different options: who loves Fixies, who likes to sleep during quiet hours, who helps mom, who always finishes lunch, who loves autumn, etc.

After several stages, the children are invited to conclude that they really have a lot in common in the group, and in order to get to know another person and make friends with him, you can ask him what he likes.

10. Funny Piano Game

Main target - develop the ability to cooperate, empathy skills and self-control

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Next, the lead pianist moves along a row of children, lightly touching the shoulder or head of the child - pressing the keys. The keys need to sound at the moment of touch, and then stop. nine0003

When performing the task again, you can complicate it: for example, press “two keys” at once next to children sitting or adjust the volume of the sound with the place where the pianist presses: the head is loud, the shoulder is quiet.

4 kinds of children's play. For preschoolers, they are more important than reading and writing

Parents are eager to teach their children useful skills as soon as possible: use a spoon, distinguish colors, read and write. Do you need to learn how to play? Our blogger Alexey Kostyuk is sure that it is necessary. After all, play is the meaning of life for a child. nine0003

Kindergartens (or their teachers) actively compete for more hours of math, reading and learning two (or more) foreign languages. At the same time, everyone completely forgets about the leading type of activity of preschool children. Yes, I'm talking about the game.

More than half of today's children will be representatives of professions that do not exist today. Progress does not stand still. More and more spheres go online or cease to exist altogether. Therefore, the development of creativity and communication skills are the most important and priority areas. All this the child receives first of all from the game. nine0003

I want to describe several types of games that children use on their own without the help of an adult. And then I’ll tell you how we combined these games and created something new.

1. Role-playing game

A game that the child creates himself. He comes up with characters and rules, can get involved in someone else's plot or teach other participants to play "his" game. The game is a continuous process, so a role-playing game can be short-lived, or it can last a long time. The child can be interrupted for another activity, and then return to this plot again and again. In a role-playing game, the means of conveying information and narrating the plot are roles and game actions. nine0003

2. Dramatization game

This is a game in which the child plays a role with which he is familiar. For example, when they play the plot of a fairy tale or story familiar to everyone. The child sees the logic of the process, knows what will happen next. He can transform into his character by wearing a suit or using some attributes, character artifacts (tools and a helmet for a builder, a tail and a bone for a dog). The teacher can regulate this process, for example, by choosing educational stories. In this format, history is easier to digest and remember. nine0003

3. Construction game

A game in which the child imitates reality or fantasizes about a certain topic. It is similar to a role-playing game, because they have one source - the life around them and the experience of the child. It is these things that the child brings into the game. Very often, a building game is part of a role-playing game and is caused by it. For example, when playing shop, you need to build a counter. And when playing aliens, you need to build an aircraft. Such activities also contribute to the development of cognitive skills (comparison, juxtaposition, memorization of construction methods, and much more), and also helps in physical development (fine motor skills, eye, endurance). nine0003

4. "The Big Game"

What if we combine all these types of games into one process? Are we going to adjust it a little? In essence, this is a story-based role-playing game without a predetermined plot and roles. All participants in the process must play. If you are indoors, you must play. Everyone sits in a circle and names their character. You can become anyone: your favorite cartoon character, a superhero, a natural phenomenon, a historical figure, even an inanimate object.

Next, you need to come up with and make yourself a costume to become like your character. And be sure to make yourself a home, a refuge. And based on what characters appeared in our game, the plot is formed. The characters begin to interact. To visit each other, to be friends or hostile. They can unite against the "villain" or to prevent an event.

I will write a separate post about the rules and features of this game. About the premises, materials and examples of how this game helps us in working with children.

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