Reading games for young children

There are numerous fun-filled and exciting reading games for preschoolers that you can opt for and help your child start developing the fascination for reading books. Start off your child on discovering the magic of reading, by introducing him to the happiness of solving a riddle and getting a prize.

Rather than turn reading into a job, let your kid start finding out how reading is so integral to any part of their lives. Hide his toys or even new ones along with a few chocolates or gifts in different parts of the house. About those locations, write down simple clues on a piece of paper. Make your child read it out loud, answer it and then find the hidden object. You can purchase a special board of this variation, too.

Or else, you can use a pen and write simple words that your child can read on all the squares of the board. Your child can count the squares and say the words aloud as he passes them.

By referencing different areas of the board, your child can learn to scan the words by visual identification. This game requires larger participation from your end, but it directly helps the child comprehend complex questions easily.

Either use a dictionary directly or write various words on flashcards and put them all in a bucket. Let your child pick out a word and tell you the number of letters in it. As a parent, you would have some wonderful memories of playing Scrabble with your family and friends. Use the core concept of the game to come up with a variation for your little one. Instead of the usual seven letters, give your child a wider variety of letters to use.

Make sure vowels are provided aplenty. Ask your child to come up with as many words as he can using those letters. You can provide a guiding list of sorts, by starting him off with three letter words, and then ramp it up to words with more letters.

Let him write down each word that he makes on the piece of paper. The core formation of speech revolves around the connection of letters with typical sounds of speech. Use this game to match the right ones together. Start by dividing the board into two columns. On one side, write a bunch of rimes, which would generally be the letters such as b, h, m, y, l, k and so on. In the other column, write as many onsets as you can. These could be anything from an, on, at, or, and many others.

Ask your child to assign one coloured marker for each rime and connect them to as many onsets as possible to form legible words.

Let him say the words aloud once he connects them. Experimentation is a great way for kids to discover and learn new things. The same can be achieved with a flip book game for reading words. Prep the diaries by writing the alphabet on each page of it. Let your child do this as a warming up of sorts.

Once all the diaries have a letter on each page, tell a word to your child and let him figure out how many letters there are in it. Based on it, he needs to use those diaries as flip books, arrange them linearly, and flip each one of them to the letter that can spell the word when reading together. You can start off gradually with simpler words and then ramp up to complex ones that can get him racking his brains. Design and build a sturdy boat to race along the rapids with the Nature Cat crew.

It's time to dance! Learn some new Pinka moves with Pinkalicious or play freeze dance with Peterrific. Welcome to Elmo's World! Play six different mini-games in Elmo's room. In this game, your child can practice letter recognition and dance with Big Bird and Snuffy. Recently I shared a printable list of CVC words that you can use when planning activity for your child or students.

Just plug in the words! Kids Activities Blog made a simple phonics flip book with a wirebound index card book. Playdough to Plato shows you how to make these word family spinners. Have you seen this idea? Create word family eggs with plastic Easter eggs at Playdough to Plato. Get the tutorial for these first words flip book at Craftulate.

Grab two wooden cubes and some stickers. Creative Family Fun shows you how to make a paper word family sort. Enter the words on Sight Words. Your students will ASK to practice their sight words when you start using this versatile set of sight word games! Join our email list and get this sample pack of time-saving resources from our membership site!

You'll get phonemic awareness, phonics, and reading comprehension resources I love all your games. You are an inspiration to me. I am retired but still teaching reading to underprivileged children in South Africa.