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 appropriate games for your child. Here are some 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.

4) If your child has never played reading games before, start off with phonics reading games will help to build a solid foundation in your child.

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 when and where should parents start to teach their child to read? Read about Preschool Reading Skills for different ages at www.shirleys-preschool-activities.com

Learning to read can be sometimes stressful for children. As parents, we do have responsibility on finding the best way for our child to learn. Take a look at Joy Of Reading to find how to make reading a joyful experience for our child.

Now, scroll down, you will find some good reading games below which are working very well on my students.

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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.

Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade. Starfall is perfect for home schooling.

This site consists word games, phonics games, reading games and comprehension strategies, and free educational resources allow you to download and print out freely.

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.

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Alphabet 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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