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My Resources » Home Reading Activities
Home Reading Activities HOME READING ACTIVITIES PHONICS/SPELLING/SIGHT WORD PRACTICE Guess the Covered Word – Write words (sight words, spelling words) on an index cards. Use another index card to cover the word. Reveal one letter at a time and have your child try to guess the word. “Dicey” Words – Draw 6 rectangles on a large piece of paper. (Each rectangle should be able to hold an index card.) Label each rectangle with a number from 1-6. Write your sight words (on weekly spelling list), vocabulary words, rhyming words, etc. on index cards. Divide your cards into 6 piles and put each pile on one of the rectangles on the large paper sheet. Have player roll a die. If a 1 is rolled, then pick the top flashcard from rectangle 1, if 2 is rolled pick the top flashcard from rectangle 2, etc. If the player can read the flashcard, he keeps the card. If he/she cannot read it, he/she places it back on the pile. If all the cards are gone from a rectangle and that number is rolled, the student loses a turn. When all of the flashcards are gone, the player with the most cards wins. Scavenger Word Hunt – Write each word you are going to hunt for on a piece of paper. Find the words in newspapers, old magazines, cereal boxes, etc. Cut out the words and glue onto the paper. How many can you find? Can you find “chunky cheese” words? Can you find words that rhyme? Concentration – Write each word on 2 separate index cards. Mix the cards up, place word side down on a table. Each player takes turns flipping 2 cards over during his/her turn. If the words on the cards match, the player keeps the cards and takes another turn. When the player turns over 2 cards that the words don’t match, he/she loses her turn. When all of the cards have been “paired”, the players count their pairs. The player with the most pairs wins. Baseball Card Browse – Find as many sight words or words with the word family of the week (i.e.-at) on the backs of a stack of baseball cards and copy each onto a piece of paper. Letter Mix-up – Cut 3”x5” index cards into 4 equal parts. Write 1 consonant on each square in one color (i.e. black). Write 1 vowel on a square in another color (i.e. red). You may need to add additional letters (i.e. words with –ss). Keep the consonants in 1 ziplock bag and the vowels in a separate bag. Write the words you want to practice (i.e. sight words, word families/spelling words, etc.) on index cards. Look at the card, say the word, trace the word with your finger and turn the card over so you can’t see the word. Use the letters to spell the word. Turn the index card back over to check. Try to create words that rhyme, too. QUESTIONS TO BUILD COMPREHENSION Characters: 1. Who are the main characters in the story? Why do you like or dislike a character? 2. Do the characters do anything good? Bad? Funny? Helpful? 3. How are you and the main character alike? Different? 4. Does the main character(s) remind you of characters from another story? Setting: 1. Where does the story take place? Describe. 2. When does the story take place? (Today, in the past, in the future, time of year) 3. Have you ever been in the same “setting”? Describe. Plot: 1. Describe an important event in the beginning, middle and end of the story. 2. Make a prediction of what will happen next. Problem/Solution: 1. What is the problem in the story? Who has the problem? 2. How is the problem solved? Who or what solves the problem? Theme: 1. What is the author’s message? Why do you think he/she wrote the story? Making Connections: 1. How does the story make you feel? Why? 2. Describe the funniest, scariest, saddest, happiest, etc. part of the story. 3. What did reading this story remind you of in your life (text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world connections)? Does it remind you of another story, movie, event, etc? Online www.primarygames.com/reading.htm
Linda Kaminski East Greenbush
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