These Reading Activities are divided into two categories:
Reading Comprehension:
Some of these reading comprehension activities are crafts and other activities built around a classic story. Other activities will have students practice reading comprehension by following directions written on a early reader level. Soon to be included material will have students learn magic tricks, follow recipes, learn card games, figure out story puzzles, go on treasure hunts, solve a mystery story. These are all highly motivating reading comprehension activities that don't make a student slog through reading comprehension questions.
Basic Decoding:
These materials include reading games and leveled reading material. Included here are beginning reading texts we call Phonics Scripts. These scripts are phonics readers written in a drama-script format, which a child and an adult read together. The adult dialogue lines carry the plot, while the child's dialogue is written in phonetically controlled text. This approach gives very beginning readers and struggling readers the opportunity to participate in reading complex stories.
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Reading Comprehension
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: Games and crafts based on a book by Verna Aardema gr:2–5
India Literature Pack: A story, games, activities, and some facts about India gr:2–5
Basic Decoding Skills
READING READINESS GAMES: Games to help with phonics and foundational reading skills
Vowel Capture Game: Practice vowel sounds with a game.
Find the Twins: Sharpen your eye to help your reading.
What was Added?: Play another visual perception game to sharpen your eye.
PHONICS SCRIPTS: Drama scripts with phonetically controlled vocabulary for beginning readers: adult dialogue lines carrying the plot, and student dialogue written in phonetically controlled text (see more about Phonics Scripts)
PHONICS SCRIPT: "Three Noisy Plays": With the student dialogue written in phonetically controlled text, this drama-script focuses on all the short vowel sounds in one and two syllable words ... and on making some noise.
PHONICS SCRIPT: "Jesus Feeds 5000 People": With the student dialogue written in phonetically controlled text, this drama-script is taken from John 6:1-13. It focuses on three-sound words with short "a", short "e", and short "i".
PHONICS SCRIPT: "The Parable of the Disobedient Child": With the student dialogue written in phonetically controlled text, this drama-script is taken from Luke 15:11-31. It focuses on three-sound words with short "a", short "e", short "i", and short "o".
PHONICS SCRIPT: "A Long Name": With the student dialogue written in phonetically controlled text, this drama-script focuses on words with vowel-consonant-silent "e".
PHONICS SCRIPT: "King Midas' Touch": With the student dialogue written in phonetically controlled text, this drama-script focuses on words with "ind", "ild", "old", "olt", "ost".
PHONICS SCRIPT: "Jesus Loves Kids": With the student dialogue written in phonetically controlled text, this drama-script is taken from Luke 9:46-48 and Luke 15:15-17. It focuses on three-sound words with short "a".
Bingo: "Jesus Loves Kids": Play BINGO with words appearing in the phonics script "Jesus Loves Kids".
PHONICS SCRIPT: "The Hak Taks": With the student dialogue written in phonetically controlled text, this drama–script is based on an old Chinese folk tale. It focuses on three-sound words with short "a", "i", and "o".
PHONICS SCRIPT: "The Big Red Egg": With the student dialogue written in phonetically controlled text, this drama-script focuses on three–sound words with short "a", "e", and "i". Draw and read: this phonics script includes a fun drawing game!
PHONICS SCRIPT: "Quack, Yap and Rat-a-tat Tat": Practice three-sound words with short "a" in a story about a young kangaroo trying to learn other animal languages.
Flip Book: "Quack, Yap and Rat-a-tat Tat": Review the words appearing in the story "Quack, Yap and Rat-a-tat Tat" with a minibook which flips letters to form new words.
PHONICS SCRIPT: "The Lost Dog": This script is written as a comic strip. You can draw in this book to personalize it.
Flip Book: "The Lost Dog": Review the words appearing in the story "The Lost Dog" with a minibook which flips letters to form new words.
PHONICS SCRIPT: "The Story of Jairus and his Child": This story is taken from Mark 5:21-43, the story of Jesus' healing of Jairus' daughter.
Card Games: "The Story of Jairus and his Child": Play Old Maid, Go Fish or Memory with the words found in "The Story of Jairus and his Child".
OTHER PHONICS ACTIVITIES
• Games: Games for teaching phonics
Word Factory: Play a word-making game. After you've played with three-sound short vowel words, play with consonant blends and with diagraphs.
Silly Sentences: Make silly sentences using short–vowel words.
Reading Checkers: Play checkers, reading a word with each move. This checkers game focuses on three-sound words with short "a" and short "i".
Sentence Puzzles: Mix up the words in a sentence and try to put the sentence back together correctly again.
Word Target: For athletic types. Compete at making short "a" words by tossing coins at a target.
• Flip and Mix : Practice reading with the Flip and Mix books below. You'll mix up sentences, making sensible sentences into silly ones.
Flip and Mix Short "a": Practice reading three-sound short "a" by words mixing up sentences.
Flip and Mix Short Vowels: Practice reading three-sound short vowel words by mixing up sentences.
Flip and Mix Blends – S family: Practice reading S–family blends by mixing up sentences.
Flip and Mix Blends – R family: Practice reading R-family blends by mixing up sentences.
Flip and Mix Blends – L family: Practice reading L–family blends by mixing up sentences.
• Word Catchers: Practice basic reading words.
This simple folded-paper game is also known as "Cootie Catcher" or "Fortune Teller". Play the game to practice reading. When the flaps are lifted, the tutor can read to the student jokes, or tongue twisters, or play a game.
• Short-vowel-sound Word Catchers: As you use these Word Catchers, you'll play a drawing game. From under the flaps you'll collect body parts to build a wacky creature.
Word Catcher with words ending in "at"
• Frequently–used–words Word Catchers: Under the flaps you'll find knock-knock jokes or tongue twisters.
Word Catcher with Danger Words
Word Catcher with Common Sight–Words
Word Catcher with Spanish Number Words
General Reading
More about PHONICS SCRIPTS
Phonics Scripts are stories written in a drama-script format, which a child and an adult read together. The adult dialogue lines carry the plot, while the child's dialogue is written in phonetically controlled text. This approach is a solution to the limitations of phonics texts. The restricted vocabulary of a phonics story limits the storyteller's ability to capture a child's imagination with an interesting plot and absorbing characters. As these scripts are published, they will progress to teach the basic rules of the phonetic code.
Reading dialogue parts side-by-side is a very intimate way for a child and an adult to experience reading together. Furthermore, taking on a character role and acting out the plot creates an active involvement with the story that increases reading comprehension as well as reading enjoyment.
Phonics Scripts use a phonics sequence adapted from the Wilson Reading System, which is used widely in schools.
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