Reading Activity For Kindergarten
Making reading activities for kindergarten aged children fun to
do sets the sails in the right direction.As a homeschooler one of the most important tasks for you to accomplish in your
child at an early age is getting them interested in and developing good reading
habits. At an early age learning to recognize letters, the sounds they make and
words they eventually form should be an activity and not a structured
assignment. A great reading activity for kindergarten aged children, for example
is to read to them.
A natural progression in your reading activities with your children is that
after you read them to a passage from the story; have them paraphrase the story
back to you. This will help you to understand what level of listening ability
and understanding they are at, as well has help them to begin building their
vocabulary as they work to find new words they can use with their description of
the story they are giving back to you.
Good reading activities don't always have to occur at the
house, or just before bedtime. While you're running errands
around town or on vacation, perhaps have the kids begin to
collect words from signs, or spell objects they see.
Encourage them to learn different ways to describe objects
see. Instead something big, it may by huge, or enormous...
or even of gargantuan proportion! Have you child arrange the
words they have collected into silly sentences or phrases.
Even something as simple as collecting letters from signs,
license plates, and such to work their way through the
alphabet is a good kindergarten age reading activity.
Not in the car, or travel around much? Use every day items around the house to
do the same thing. Labels, there are plenty of labels around the house. Actually
put labels on everyday items around the house so your child can associate the
spelling, and reading with a tangible item. Then, after a while, take the labels
off the items and help your child read and re-label the house.
Once you get
your creative juices flowing, you'll come up with many more
reading activities. The key is to make reading activities an
every day part of their life. Make an effort to spend an
hour a day reading more with an hour less of television. T.V.
is an extremely passive thought processing activity. While
reading and using one's imagination is a source of growth
and a great foundation from which to build.
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