Reading Games
Get your children hooked on books
Reading games are loaded with fun, interactive activities that are sure to give your child hours of fun learning. They are excellent ways for a child of any age to learn reading comprehension. You may find variety of reading games on the market today, but do you know how to choose the best and right games for your child. Here are three tips: 1) Select games that fit your child’s age and skill level. Carefully read the content of each game to make sure that the skills on the game are suitable for your child. 2) Second, choose a game that has more than one skill level or type of a game that will develop your child as they get new knowledge and skills. 3) When choosing any reading game for your child, you should make sure that it is fun. If it is not fun, your child will not want to play it.
One important thing you should Know... Parental involvement in a child's early years has a major impact on their future educational level, hence, parents who are illiterate are more likely to have children with limited reading abilities. Illiteracy not only affects adults, but their children and family as well. So parent play a big role on building children's reading skills. The question is where and when should parents start to teach their child to read? Read about Preschool Reading Skills for different ages at www.shirleys-preschool-activities.com Below I listed some good games which are work well on my students, these games are suitable for preschoolers and kindergarteners.
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Barnyard Chorus
Create an animal chorus to sing some of the group's favorite songs
Sound effects
Children get to make up sound effects and a noisy story, then have fun with audience participation.
Pull-out story
Drawing words and pictures out of a hat can inspire the children to invent amazing stories.
So handy
Use this traditional finger play to get the children ready to settle in
Bouncing ABCs
Bouncing an alphabet ball helps children catch on to letter recognition.
Sound stories
Here's a fantastic activity that lets children express themselves and be noisy in appropriate ways
Listening game
Chanted words that do or don't rhyme give children a fun time.
Rhyme Time
Children explore the world of rhyming words.
There is a long-standing debate about methods of teaching reading, which generally pits proponents emphasizing systematic teaching of phonics against those who emphasize meaning rather than phonics. Nearly every educator recognizes that a balance is necessary, and both that phonics and meaning are important in beginning reading. Here are some educational sites online which provide great phonics and meaning based reading games.
Startfall
Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade. Starfall is perfect for home schooling.
Adrian Bruce
This site consists word games, phonics games, reading games and comprehension strategies, and free educational resources allow you to download and print out freely.
Reading Is Fundamental
RIF is the oldest and largest children's and family nonprofit literacy organization in the United States. they provide great reading learning source for babies, toddlers, preschoolers and even grow-up.
Recommended Kids Reading MaterialAlphabet Phonics & Fun is my students' favorite DVD format activity book, this DVD features kids only and has encouraged my students to want write uppercase alphabet. We have a big library of educational DVDs at school and this one adds diversity and is quite educational.
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