Activities

Making Reading Relevant: Read, Learn, and Do!

By: Reading Rockets (2008)

Making Reading Relevant: Read, Learn, and Do! (Pre-K)

By: Reading Rockets (2008)

A Teacher's Guide to Using Newspapers to Enhance Language Arts Skills

By: Newspaper Association of America Foundation (2007)

Newspapers expand the curriculum with an unlimited amount of information to use as background for learning activities. Discover new ways to use the newspaper in your language arts studies, with these activities from the Newspaper Association of America.

Creating Learning Traditions

By: Reading Rockets (2007)

Learning That's Hands-On Holiday Fun (Pre-K)

By: Reading Rockets (2007)

Use Summer Fun to Build Background Knowledge

By: Reading Rockets (2007)

Reading with Jack and Jill

By: Reading Rockets (2007)

It Happened Over There:
Empathy Through Children's Books

By: Pam McKeta (2005)

Reading Rockets helps parents and educators address the aftermath of the tsunami disaster with children through reading and books.

Making Music: Literacy Tips for Parents

By: The Lee Pesky Learning Center (2004)

Music is a great way to introduce children to sounds and words! Research indicates that exposure to music has numerous benefits for a child's development.

Phonemic Activities for the Preschool or Elementary Classroom

By: Marilyn J. Adams, Barbara Foorman, Ingvar Lundberg, and Terri Beeler (2004)

Activities that stimulate phonemic awareness in preschool and elementary school children are one sure way to get a child ready for reading! Here are eight of them from expert Marilyn Jager Adams.

Speech Sounds: Suggested Activities

By: Reading Rockets (2004)

Children must understand how speech sounds work to be ready for instruction in reading and writing. There are many activities that you can do with your students to help them increase their knowledge of speech sounds and their relationship to letters.

Meet the Word Families

By: Between the Lions (2003)

Creating a word family chart with the whole class or a small group builds phonemic awareness, a key to success in reading. Students will see how words look alike at the end if they sound alike at the end - a valuable discovery about our alphabetic writing system. They'll also see that one little chunk (in this case -an) can unlock lots of words!

By Car, Train, or Bus! The Sounds of Language On the Go

By: Judith Fontana (2002)

Moms, dads, or grandparents can play simple word games with kids to increase their ability to recognize and use letters and sounds. Try these games the next time you're on the go.

Print Awareness: Guidelines for Instruction

By: Texas Education Agency (2001)

Print awareness is a child's earliest understanding that written language carries meaning. The foundation of all other literacy learning builds upon this knowledge. The following are guidelines for teachers in how to promote print awareness and a sample activity for assessing print awareness in young children.

10 Weeks of Summer Reading Adventures for You and Your Kids

By: Reading Is Fundamental (2000)

It's not hard to help your children keep their interest in reading and learning during the summer break. Here are ten weeks of suggestions to encourage your children to open books even after school doors close.

Activities for Struggling Readers

By: Doris J. Johnson (1999)

Children with disabilities can benefit from the same language and literacy activities as all young children: being read to, having rich conversations, and playing games with sounds. However, children with disabilities may need these activities to be modified or intensified for maximum benefit. Find out about activities for struggling readers in these suggestions for parents.

103 Things to Do Before/During/After Reading

By: Jim Burke (1998)

View this article for a collection of interactive activities that help kids become more involoved in the stories that they read.

Straight Talk About Reading

By: Susan Hall and Louisa Moats (1998)

Early experiences with sounds and letters help children learn to read. This article makes recommendations for teaching phonemic awareness, sound-spelling correspondences, and decoding, and includes activities for parents to support children's development of these skills.

Six Games for Reading

(1997)

Playing games is a great way to provide additional practice with early reading skills. Here are six games parents or tutors can use to help young readers practice word recognition, spelling patterns, and letter-sound knowledge.

25 Activities for Reading and Writing Fun

By: Ed Kame'enui and Deborah C. Simmons (1997)

Doing activities with your children allows you to promote their reading and writing skills while having fun at the same time. These activities for pre-readers, beginning readers, and older readers includes what you need and what to do for each one.