Engaging children in literacy games is an excellent way to make learning fun and interactive. These hands-on reading games, art projects, reading centers and active reading activities from TeacherFileBox printables are great for kinesthetic learners and make reading interactive and enjoyable!
Hands-On Alphabet Letter Activities
Create an “S” poster, a recipe for spaghetti, spider and skunk activities, and more with this fun alphabet unit.
These alphabet puppet activities and picture cards create fun sound/letter matching games for beginning readers.
Word Building with Manipulatives
Provide students with manipulatives like magnetic letters, letter tiles, or foam letters to build words. Encourage them to manipulate the letters, blend sounds, and create new words. This hands-on approach strengthens phonics skills, word recognition, and spelling abilities. For a fun classroom center activity, provide students with their weekly spelling list and have them build the words with letter tiles before writing them.
This first grade spelling list from TeacherFileBox is a great way to introduce new words.
Word-Family Games
Learning word families can be fun with these center activity games for up to six players! Improve word recognition skills and reading fluency with these activities.
These vocabulary centers presents a word game similar to bingo in which students listen for word families!
Hands-On Sequencing Activities
These short story sequencing activities from TeacherFileBox printables are a fun way to have children show the order of events in a story.
Book-Based Art Projects:
Extend the reading experience by incorporating art activities inspired by books. Encourage students to create illustrations, dioramas, or crafts related to the stories they’ve read. This not only reinforces comprehension but also encourages creativity and self-expression. These activities from TeacherFileBox printables include fun, hands-on book reports!
Create and decorate a book cover for your favorite reading book! Book Cover
Brainstorm selling points for a reading book and create an advertisement. Advertisement for a Book.
This fun activity unit includes The Tortoise and the Hare fable along with hands-on headband art to help young children retell the story with pictures. Tales with Headbands: The Tortoise and the Hare.
Reading Center Activities
Phonics Games Syllable Count Game for 6 Players: This colorful and fun game is a great way to have children practice syllable counting.
Take It to Your Seat Literacy Centers Get to the Root of It: Practice identifying root words with this colorful reading center activity.
Evan-Moor’s TeacherFileBox printables are a great tool to help children learn to read. The diverse reading activities and games provide engaging reading experiences for kids. With thousands of reading activities, parents and teachers can create a reading curriculum around every child’s abilities and interests.
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Heather Foudy is a certified elementary teacher with over 7 years’ experience as an educator and volunteer in the classroom. She enjoys creating lessons that are meaningful and creative for students. She is currently working for Evan-Moor’s marketing and communications team and enjoys building learning opportunities that are both meaningful and creative for students and teachers alike.