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30 Teacher-Recommended Preschool Reading Activities

Reading is one of the most important skills any one of us will ever learn. It is the foundation for learning in any and every subject. Because of this, it is important to foster a love of reading early on that makes children eager to read as they grow older. Using fun, interactive activities like those listed in this article will set the stage for children to be successful in reading for years to come!

1. Create a Shopping List

Have kids help you create a shopping list. After, read each word aloud and have them practice the reading skill of letter and sound recognition.

Learn more: Teacher Vision

2. Use Puppets

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Research shows that to teach a child to read, we should give the child opportunities to retell stories as much as possible. In this activity, tell a story using a puppet, and then you can have kids retell the story using the same puppet!

3. Have a Preschool Pen Pal

This fun letter activity will get all kids interested in both reading and writing. They will look forward to hearing from their pen pals and reading how their lives are going before writing their own letter in response.

Learn more: Playful Learning

4. Play with Magnetic Letters

Use alphabet letter magnets to teach letter recognition. This simple activity has children put all of the letters with holes on one side and the ones without holes on the other. This helps teach them the different letter shapes. After, you can go over each letter sound.

Learn more: Pre-K Pages

5. Play Doctor

Setting up a doctor’s play area is great for use during choice time! Children can even help you create the signs for the different things included in your doctor’s play area, solidifying letter knowledge. If you have extra space, you can also make other fun play areas!

Learn more: PreKinders

6. Match Letters to Sounds

Teach letter sounds with worksheets that have children match letters to the image that begins with the correct sound. This is also a good way to teach the difference between lowercase and capital letters by using worksheets with both.

Learn more: Live Worksheets

7. Label Common Items

If you label common items around your home with their names, you can have children practicing early literacy from their baby to preschool years. They will constantly see the written words of common images, giving them a head start on letter recognition!

Learn more: 1 Plus 1 Plus 1 Equals 1

8. Play I Spy

One of the easiest activities for children that requires zero setups is I Spy! You can play by having them find items that start with a certain letter, or you can have them find the letters in words in your everyday world. Soon they will be “spying” all of the letters they see on billboards, cereal boxes. ..anything they come into contact with!

Learn more: Homeschool Preschool

9. Join a Preschool Book Club

If you live in a bigger area, you may be able to find a local preschool book club. If not, you can subscribe to various different book clubs for children online. Your children will be excited to see what book will show up next, which will get them excited about reading!

Learn more: Homegrown Friends

10. Do a Letter Scavenger Hunt

Do a scavenger hunt and find things that start with all of the letters of the alphabet in your area. You can do this in your home or on a walk. Your kids will be learning while having fun! Children can either find items beginning with the focus letters or actually find the letters in print form.

Learn more: Entertain Your Toddler

11. Play Board Games

There are a number of board games that are made specifically with literacy in mind. Play these games to practice their oral literacy. One way to play the game pictured is to create a story together, with each person adding to the story based on the picture on their game piece.

Learn more: 40 Best Board Games for Preschoolers

12. Play a Sight Word Game

The great thing about games is that children learn without even realizing it! Help your child practice those sight words now to make reading easier later. They will be excited to see what “prize” they get for every answer they get right.

Learn more: SandZ Academy

13. Read Rhyming Books

There are three stages to rhyming: hearing a rhyme, identifying a rhyme, and producing a rhyme. To introduce rhyming, read rhyming books for kids. Once they understand the concept, ask them to identify rhymes while you are reading. Finally, have them expand on the rhymes by creating their own. Soon your kids will be rhyming masters!

Learn more: Early Learning Ideas

14. Watch Nursery Rhyme Videos

Who doesn’t remember nursery rhymes from their childhood? Nowadays, kids can access cartoons and videos with nursery rhymes easily using YouTube. Soon they will be dancing around singing these catchy tunes in their everyday lives. They will be practicing early literacy skills without even realizing it!

Learn more: Farmees – Nursery Rhymes And Kids Songs

15. Start a Home or Classroom Library

Fill up a child-sized reading corner with their favorite books, award-winning books, alphabet books. ..any and all books you can get your hands on that will pique their interest in reading! Have them pick a few books to read each night before bed and foster a love of reading early on.

Learn more: National Association for the Education of Young Children

16. Read Wordless Picture Books

Read a picture book without any words. This allows your children to use their imaginations to make up their own storyline as they read. You can read the same book multiple times and come up with a different story every time!

Learn more: 30 Classic Picture Books for Preschool

17. Play A Fun Phonics Game

Learning phonics is an important language skill to better understand letter sounds and the relationship letters have to one another. By playing phonics games, your kids will have so much fun, that they will forget they are learning.

Learn more: 25 Fantastic Phonics Activities for Kids

18. Act Out Stories

After children read and know stories well, have them act them out. This will build on the literacy skills of recall and comprehension at the same time. And you will get to see their creativity as they act out their favorite stories!

Learn more: High Scope US

19. Make Real-World Connections

As you read to your children, make real-world connections by asking leading questions like “how would you feel if this happened to you?” or “have you ever been to a park like this?” This helps them make an association between books and the real world.

Learn more: Teach Stone

20. Tell Family Stories

Telling stories about your family to your child helps them feel connected to something bigger and also find their place in the world. When they are ready, they can tell their own stories of fun things you have done together to practice their recall skills!

Learn more: Leadership Storylab

21. Have Them Repeat Directions

Having your child repeat back directions you have given him or her does two things: 1. It makes sure they know what is understood of them, and 2. It helps build and practice their oral vocabulary and recall skills. And this way they can’t claim they didn’t hear you when you asked them to do something!

Learn more: Child Mind

22. Create a Storybook

Have your child dictate a story as you write it on the pages of a blank book, and then have them add illustrations to practice their fine motor skills. They will practice many literacy skills at once and be excited to add their book to the bookshelf.

Learn more: Kinder Art

23. Practice Sight Words with Magnetic Letters

Using a whiteboard and magnetic alphabet numbers, have children match the magnets to words you have written out. As they get older, you can add additional vocabulary words to this fun game. You can also messages written in magnetic letters on your fridge to further encourage literacy development.

Learn more: Fun Learning for Kids

24. Create a Menu

Involve your child in your weekly meal planning by having them create their own menu. You can give them a list of options and they can copy down which they would like that week. They will be practicing their reading and writing skills while feeling involved with family planning!

Learn more: Primary Treasure Chest

25. Make Bath Time Fun Time

Use foam letters on your shower wall to turn bath time into learning time. They will have fun manipulating the letters to create new words! This is an easy, no cleanup activity that they can play every time they are getting clean.

Learn more: Munchkin

26. Create Alphabet Letter Shapes

Use alphabet cookie cutters and playdough for a fun hands-on activity for preschoolers. After they have created enough letters, have them put them together to make words. You can also do this game with cookie dough and make edible letters!

Learn more: Doughnique

27. Make Alphabet Jewelry 

Using string or pipe cleaners and alphabet beads, have children create jewelry. You can link this to books you have recently read and have them spell out words related to the story.

Learn more: Preschool Inspirations

28. Create the Alphabet with Blocks

Using printouts of letters and building blocks, have children literally build the letters of the alphabet. Soon they will be alphabet masters and ready to take on reading on their own!

Learn more: All About Learning Press

29. Write with Marshmallows

This activity is great for letter recognition and for teaching children to spell their names. After writing their names on paper, give them some glue and marshmallows and have them create their own marshmallow art. And hey, when they are done, they can even eat a few marshmallows!

Learn more: HiMama Child Care App

30. Create a Rhyming Anchor Chart

Anchor charts are great reminders for all kids and help visual learners really cement new concepts. Create a rhyming anchor chart to solidify the concept of rhyming using words and pictures. After, read books with rhymes and ask the children to point out when you rhyme two words.

Learn more: Mrs. Vanik’s Kindergarten Class

Preparing for Preschool Reading

Preschool teachers develop literacy by continually exposing children to oral and written language, and by building on prior knowledge and language experiences. Pictures, play, and the printed word combine with oral language to help your child understand the symbolic representation that underlies preschool reading and writing. Her teacher will use a variety of fun, engaging strategies in the classroom to develop preschool reading, such as:

• Reading aloud: A small group of children cluster around their teacher in the reading corner, listening intently as she reads The Cat in the Hat. She holds up the book so they can see the illustrations and talk about them. The teacher asks questions about the story and the children make predictions about what will happen next. By actively participating in the story, children acquire skills that will promote success in preschool reading.
• Poetry: Nursery rhymes, songs, and poetry are key parts of preschool reading. Listening to, and repeating, poetry is a wonderful way for children to learn phonemic awareness. That is the ability to notice and isolate the individual sounds, or phonemes, in words, like the “c” in cat or the “b” in bat — a key skill for success in preschool reading. Preschoolers first learn that speech is made up of sounds, syllables, and words indirectly from listening to stories, nursery rhymes, poetry, and conversations.
• Storytelling: Listening teaches story structure and helps children learn to predict outcomes. One advantage of storytelling (versus reading aloud from a book) is that you can change the story depending on how the children respond.
• The printed word: To understand how print works, preschoolers need to be surrounded by it — in books and magazines, in signs around the classroom, on bulletin boards, in labels on their clothes and possessions. They need to learn that written words correspond to spoken words, that words are composed of letters, and that sentences are made up of words with spaces between the words.
• The alphabet: Alphabet books and puzzles help children learn the relationship between sounds and letters, and give them practice recognizing and distinguishing letters.
• Writing and invented spelling: Writing is a key part of preschool reading. At preschool, your child will be encouraged to write captions for his pictures, to write stories about what he’s drawn, and to tell stories based on his experiences and imagination.
• Dramatic play: Children exercise their imaginations, practice their communication skills, and learn the subtleties of spoken language in dramatic play and dress-up games.
• Computers: A computer can be an important tool for children in learning to write. Because their small motor control is still developing, preschoolers often find it easier to find the letters they are looking for on the keyboard than to use a pencil to form them. The teacher will help them search for letters in the beginning and encourage them to read the words they are writing and then print them out.

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March 3 – 10

With warm greetings from Fyokla

How long have they been in the forest? Day two? a week? In the impenetrable forest, the sense of time and place is lost. Trees, ravines and even swamps are all the same. It will sag on the right, then it will crack on the left. Behind every bush is the ghost of Zakharushka. And here, as if from under the ground, a whole army of forest monsters is growing, shuddering with shaggy withers …

Whatever happens in the life of 11-year-old Sevka, he will definitely cope: the main thing is that there must be someone nearby who you can trust.

March 10-17

Photographs for memory

The story “Photographs for memory” covers several eras: post-war years, when the boys did not ask about their nationality, but won respect in the yard with strength, courage and football skills; the end of the 1980s, when the ending of the last name and the shape of the nose suddenly became the most important thing; and modernity, when the experienced conflict has not only remained in faded photographs, but again burns and hurts.

17 – 24 March

Where does the kumutkan go? My brother Bzou

The heroes of these stories are not similar to each other, but they are united by friendship, care for loved ones and wild animals. In the story “Where does the kumutkan go?” seventh-graders Maxim, Ayuna and Sasha live on the outskirts of Irkutsk. They are passionate about playing yard wars, orc attacks and ancient shamanic curses. The harsh game will gradually be replaced by an even harsher reality. The guys are waiting for tests on the ice of Lake Baikal, where they will be left without the help of adults and will save defenseless seal cubs.

March 24 – 31

Chronicles of Dragomir. Book 1

Dragomir, built on precious stones and minerals, and its inhabitants – good magicians and sorceresses – lived in harmony until the insidious witch Jadeida appeared. With the help of black books and their ancient keeper, she mastered the magic of all the elements, cast a terrible curse on Dragomir and unleashed a war that has been going on for 13 years now. Only the Moon can stop her – a girl born on the night of the curse. But where is she?

March 31 – April 7

Zoom. Quarantine story

In this story of the story, each episode is inscribed in the general chronicle. ZOOM. Quarantine Story” by Elena Boroda is not just a chronicle of the last school semester, it is also a piece of a big story, when reality changes in a short time, and the life exam turns out to be more difficult than the exam.

April 7-14

Grigory without patronymic Babochkin

Two opposites come together, reveal something in each other that they themselves lack. It seems that this True Male Friendship will help both to cope with anything: with anxiety before the competition; with family difficulties and misunderstanding of loved ones; with bullying and ridicule. So it is – but only as long as the first love does not interfere in the matter …

April 14 – 21

Tin head

Zhenya + cane = Tin. Only Tin minus the hated cane – it will not be the old Zhenya. The plaster was removed, they were released to school, the scars are healing, but nothing will be the same as before. She is now locked in this body that is constantly rocking, hurting and cold and wanting to fight. Locked up like that guy in the robot suit with the peephole in his chest. Zhenya’s window, like a camera in a phone, snatches frames from reality: a white butterfly, blue sneakers, green ozobots on red trees. Three-liter jar with meat. Volume of Shakespeare. Mechanical cockroach…

April 21-28

I live here

Five stories included in the collection are united by the theme of growing up. That is why the reader can easily recognize himself and his experiences in them. And, perhaps, he will find answers to his questions: why look for common interests with peers, is it possible to maintain trusting relationships with parents, and why is it sometimes easier to defend one’s position among classmates than it seems…

April 28 – May 5

Gods are like people. Book 1

This story begins with earthly problems, but unfolds into an epic struggle between the gods and the collision of different worlds. Yagishna thought that she could never be happy again: her beloved Vladan had been killed, her native village was no more, and each new day brought only suffering. This grief could last for many years, but Yagishna learned that Vladan could be brought back from the dead. With the help of new friends – Mary and Kalen – the girl performs a dark and forgotten blood ritual…

5 – 12 May

Call me Jean Miller

Tenth grader Zhenya Vysotskaya is an absolutely uninteresting person. Both classmates and parents tell her about this without hiding. The daughter is a real disappointment, not a creative person at all. She has no special interests: except for watching movies and TV shows, translating lyrics, listening to music and reading – but are these really hobbies? Zhenya knows this herself. In an essay in an English class, she honestly admits: “I have no dreams.”
Unexpectedly, she becomes an unwitting witness to strange events: the younger brother of her classmate passes a package with something red to a stranger…

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