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Reading is a blast when students have the right motivation. Try a verb relay race and other great reading activities to keep your students energized about learning. If your students perform better with more mellow and artistic time, alphabet activities like Rock the Alphabet and making letters out of pipe cleaners will delight and educate at the same time.

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Reading Tour

Help your first grader build up his sight words by creating a reading pointer and having him take the family on a house-wide reading tour!

Tea Reading

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

Fun With Reading

This game turns prediction, a major component of third grade reading, into a fun game.

Make a Reading Bookmark!

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

Basic Reading Comprehension

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

Practice Reading with Newspaper "Highlights"

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

Practice Reading by Getting into Character!

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

Practice Reading with a Rainbow Puzzle!

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

Practice Reading with a Word Hunt

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

Guess The First Letter: A Reading Challenge

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

Slide Sounds to Teach Reading

... road to reading. And in no time, she’ll be slip sliding away! reading, phonemic awareness, sound slide, kindergarten, learning to read, reading readiness, activity...

Craft a Royal Reading Crown

... Sleeping Beauty, have never quite gone out of style. Want to give those reading legends a little learning oomph? Here’s a hands-on phonics craft for...

Play Story Ball: A Reading Comprehension Game

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

Play "I Caught You!" An Early Reading Game

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.

Stretch and Say: A Reading Activity

... to build concrete, visual connections to the reading process. Beginning readers need practice “sounding out” and “blending” letter sounds back...

Questions, Anyone? Ask Your Way to Reading Comprehension

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

What's a Zipper? A Writing Game

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

Build your kindergartener's reading comprehension by making a classic box of objects that invite them into the books you're reading together.

Drawing Characters

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting her draw the characters.

Unplug Yourself with a "Little House" Dinner

Plan a family dinner based on the "Little House" books, and encourage reading in the household!

Make a Family Cookbook

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

Play Letter-Sound Hopscotch!

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for first grade reading.

Write a Concrete Poem For Mom

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

Learn Sight Words with a Water Game!

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

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