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Share Your Kids' Activities To Promote Literacy

Kids Activities


What fun games and activities have you been playing with your child recently to help improve their literacy skills?

Perhaps you have played a game to help your young child learn their letters, practice sounds or start to read words? Or have you guided your older child through an activity to help improve their reading fluency or comprehension?

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Kids' Activities to Promote Literacy

Click on the links below to read about the literacy games I have been playing with my children recently. Your activity will be added to this list.

Code Breaker Game 
Most children love to crack a code and discover the secret message hidden within. Mine are no exception. Recently we had some fun with this Code ...

Non-Fiction Books 
Putting Words Into Their Mouths
My children and I are big fans of non-fiction books. Factual books are perfect for building background knowledge,...

Summer Reading Practice 
When your child is learning to read, or striving to improve their reading, practice really does make perfect. During term time children spend a lot ...

Hide and Seek Reading Game 
When the weather is sunny I feel we must make the most of it and usually encourage my boys to play outside. It is not always so easy to think of ...

Kids' Newspaper Activity 
Reading the newspaper with your child is a great way to help improve their reading skills . It provides benefits on a number levels. The content ...

Making Maps of Mr McGregor's Garden 
While reading aloud to my children I am always thinking about how I can help them to engage more deeply with the story. If children have a deeper ...

Getting Curious with Curious George 
One of the latest additions to our bookshelf is The Complete Adventures of Curious George by Margret and H.A Rey, which contains seven ...

Alphabet Activities 
I will be perfectly honest. I haven't spent as much time as I would have liked helping my younger son to master the alphabet. It is not that I have ...

Connecting through play with
"Where The Wild Things Are" 
Good readers think actively as they read and make connections with what they are reading. They connect with the characters in the story, the situations ...

Fishing for Letters and Words 
While cleaning out a cupboard recently I came across our magnetic fishing rods which had got packed away with the summer toys. This inspired me to ...

Valentine's Poem Activity 
Make a loved one feel special while also letting your child practice word recognition with this activity to make a Valentine's poem. Being good at ...

The Read and Post Game 
My son has had a bit of an obsession with all things to do with posting for a while now. Since he has also recently started learning to read I thought ...

Christmas Thank You Cards 
It is the time of year for writing thank you cards for all of those wonderful Christmas presents you and your children have received. However, if ...




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