Fun game ideas with books!

Here’s a fun game you can play with your children when practicing reading books starts to get old:

Tell your kids you’re going to try something different while you’re reading together today. Have a spare piece of paper and explain that you are going to make a word list while he or she reads the book. Make the list based on the predominate phonics word pattern that’s being featured in the book. For example: in a book called “Jake’s Cake” you’ll be finding a lot of words with a silent ‘e’ which makes the ‘a’ in the word have a long sound.

As your child reads the book, make a list of words that fit the phonics criteria that you’ve chosen.

When your child finishes the book, go through the list of words you’ve made you’re your child and see if they understand the phonics pattern.

Next, choose a similar book and tell them it’s their turn to write the list. Go through the list together and make any corrections if need be. Once this game becomes too easy, have your child make more than one list with each list having a different phonics pattern