Category: Fun Reading Activities
Fun Reading Activities: Day 30 – Discover Your Senses
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!
This activity helps build your child’s reading comprehension skills. Creating a mental image in their mind when they read can help them better understand and retain what they are reading.
What You’ll Need:
- Descriptive passage from a book
- Paper
- Art materials such as crayons, markers, and paints
Here’s How to Do It:
Explain to your child what a mental image is. Discuss with them how the five senses can help them create a mental image. Review the five senses: sound, sight, taste, smell, and touch. Have your child describe an object, such as an orange or a plant in the room, using the five senses.
Read aloud a descriptive passage from a book. Ask your child to close their eyes and create a mental image while you read. Ask them to think about the five senses. Have them draw or paint a picture of their mental image. Discuss the picture they drew. Ask questions such as “What words from the passage helped you create the image?” Ask questions regarding the five senses such as “What does it feel like?” “What does it smell like?”
Congratulate your child on an excellent job!
Fun Reading Activities: Day 29 – Thank You Letter
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!
Have your child write a letter to someone who has given them something or done something nice for them recently.
Congratulate your child on an excellent job!
Fun Reading Activities: Day 28 – Pull a Story Out of a Hat!
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!
Take several strips of paper and write silly sentences on them. For example, one could read “I tripped on a snail.” Another could say “Tomorrow, I will take a ride on a frog!”
Take all of the strips of paper and toss them together in a hat.
Have your child pull the strips out, one at a time, and read them aloud. After reading the silly sentence, have them make up a silly story to go with it. This activity will have them giggling their way through the whole story!
Congratulate your child on an excellent job!
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