Fun Reading Tips and Activities

Click below for fun ideas and activities you can do with your child! These will help build your child's reading skills.

Building blocks of reading

• Get your child ready to read
• Teach your child about sounds
• Teach your child about letters
• Practice sounding out words
• Encourage your child to write
• Help your child understand what he or she reads
• Reading tips for parents

Fun reading ideas

• Family activities at home
• Using storytelling, rhymes, and more
• Music and reading
• Telling family stories

These tips aren't just for parents. They're for anyone who cares – grandparents, aunts, uncles, babysitters, neighbors, and friends. Print the pages out and ask other people to do the activities with your child, too. Hang the pages on your refrigerator door.

Try the activities and repeat the ones your child enjoys. Some of them – like "read with your child for 15 minutes each day" – are helpful no matter what age or stage your child is at.