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Learning to read is difficult — so let’s make it easier.

Today we start our series on 30 Fun Reading Activities.With each activity your reader will practice core reading skills such as inferencing, prediction, main idea, description, etc, AND you and your learner will be having a great time!

Get started today. Turn reading into fun!

You will need: several boxes of breakfast cereal, or similar.

Choose one of the boxes and read the information on the outside of the box. Depending on the lever of your reader you might stay with simple information like the name of the cereal and identifying who makes it. More advanced learners could be introduced to the nutrition and ingredient information.

After looking at one box together, hand a second box to your child and ask them to tell you some information about it. If they struggle, model the process again by doing it together. It’s all learning!

Congratulate your child on an excellent job!

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Learning to read is difficult —  so we are making it easier with a series of fun activities that you can do with your child for reading practice.

With each activity your reader will practice core reading skills such as inferencing, prediction, main idea, description, etc. AND you and your learner will be having  a great time!

Let’s turn reading into fun!

You will need: instructions from some easy board or card games.Choose one of the instructions and read it through together. Together, answer questions such as: How many people can play? How do you set up the game? How does a player win? What items are needed to play the game?

Choose the questions based on the comprehension skills of your learner. Make sure you model how you are finding the information: “Look, the title of this section is ‘How to Win’. It will tell us what to do to win.”

Next,grab the instructions from another game and see if your learner can answer some of the same questions independently. If not, do it together again. All this practice is developing your child’s reading skills.

Congratulate your child on an excellent job!

Want the ultimate convenience?

Download all 30 Days of Fun Activities in one FREE PDF.

Learning to read is difficult —  so we are making it easier with a series of fun activities that you can do with your child for reading practice.

With each activity your reader will practice core reading skills such as inferencing, prediction, main idea, description, etc. AND you and your learner will be having  a great time!

Let’s turn reading into fun!

In this activity your child will practice making predictions, using information, and guessing what might happen next. You will need: a fiction book your child has never read before. You can read the pages to your child or allow them to read it themselves.

Read the first page/paragraph/chapter (depending on your child). Stop and ask questions like: what do you think will happen next? What is the most likely thing to happen? Name one or two things that could possibly happen.

Read ahead to see if you were right, and then talk about it. If your child struggles with understanding the reading, use the model-together-solo approach.

Model-Together-Solo: Using one of the pages, model the instruction, making sure to explain what you are doing, what clue words you are seeing, etc. Then go to the next page and find the information together. Finally, see if your child can find the information independently. If not, do it together again. All this practice is developingyour child’s reading skills.

Congratulate your child on an excellent job!

Want the ultimate convenience?

Download all 30 Days of Fun Activities in one FREE PDF.