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Fun Reading Activities: Day 16 – Be a Newspaper Reporter
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!
Use the following as a guideline. Tell your child, “Pretend you are a newspaper reporter. You have been sent to write an article about me. You must ask me questions that will give you answers to write about.”
Allow your child to interview you and then he/she will write the answers into a story or newspaper article. If needed, you can model the process first by being the newspaper reporter. Tell them to make it interesting or even funny!
Congratulate your child on an excellent job!
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Fun Reading Activities: Day 15 – You are a star!
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!
Choose a book and record your child reading aloud. Let them listen to it. Talk about what was good and what was challenging. Make some suggestions on how it might sound better. Get them to read the same passage again and record it. Listen to it again.
Tell them to pretend that they’ve been asked to play a part in a movie. Tell them that only the best actor’s will get the part. Roleplay with them and record. Discuss ideas that would make it sound even better. Record them again, and praise them for every improvement they make!
Congratulate your child on an excellent job!
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Fun Reading Activities: Day 14 – Act It Out
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!
Read a short story and act it out. Bring in other members of the family if you want and make it a family event. You may even want to perform it for grandma, or a special aunt.
Congratulate your child on an excellent job!
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Download all 30 Days of Fun Activities in one FREE PDF.
