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Reading comprehension activities are a great way to practice comprehension skills at home.

Developing reading comprehension skills are an important part of becoming a competent reader. Unfortunately, many children struggle with reading comprehension. Therefore, focusing on developing these skills from a young age is essential.

To help you practice reading comprehension with your child, we'll discuss several comprehension strategies and ten fun reading comprehension activities. These activities will help your child develop the reading comprehension skills they need to become a skilled reader!

Ready to learn how to improve reading comprehension for kids? Let's go!

What is reading and comprehension, and why is it important?

Reading comprehension is the ability to understand the text you are reading.

Reading text and understanding its meaning may seem automatic to capable readers. However, we often forget how difficult it can be to process this information. For instance, for a child to read and comprehend a story, they must first decode the text (i.e., apply their knowledge of letter-sound relationships to pronounce written words). Once they have translated letters into words, they must recognize that these words convey meaning. Then, they must apply vocabulary and background knowledge to understand the meaning behind each word. Finally, all the words (and their meanings) must be combined to create a meaningful story. As you can see, this is a complex process and involves a considerable amount of mental capacity!

As children practice these individual reading skills, the meaning of a story is often lost. In other words, although a child reads the words in a book, they may not understand what is happening in the story. This is why it is important to practice reading comprehension skills with your child using fun reading comprehension activities.

Why Some Kids Struggle with Reading Comprehension

As discussed above, reading a text and understanding its meaning is very complex and requires multiple skills. Thus, if a child struggles with any single reading skill, they will undoubtedly struggle with reading comprehension. For example, if a child has difficulty decoding letters into words or has limited vocabulary or world knowledge, they will struggle with comprehension. That's because these skills are necessary to understand the meaning behind a story.

This is why reading aloud is one of the best ways to help a child with reading difficulties. Reading aloud (or having your child listen to audiobooks) allows them to focus on comprehension rather than the skills needed to decode text.
Don't always have time to read aloud to your child? Then, check out these top audiobooks for kids.
Now that you know what reading comprehension entails and why some kids struggle with it, let's look at how to improve reading comprehension for kids. The best place to start is by exploring key strategies and fun reading comprehension activities.

What are the 5 reading comprehension strategies?

﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿There are several tactics that experienced readers use to make sense of what they are reading. These are known as reading comprehension strategies. By teaching your child these strategies, you can help them develop the skills needed to become a proficient reader.

The 5 reading comprehension strategies that parents should practice with their kids include:
1. Making Connections
﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿ Skilled readers often draw upon their experience and background knowledge to help them understand the text they are reading. Readers can make three common associations - connecting the text to their personal experiences, linking the text to a similar story, and connecting the text to the outside world. By helping your child relate a story to external experiences or situations, you can help them practice this valuable reading comprehension strategy.
2. Making Predictions
Predicting what a story is about and situations that may occur can also support reading comprehension. To help your child develop this comprehension strategy, examine the book cover and pictures in the story before you start reading. Then, discuss possible scenarios and story outcomes. By doing so, you will help your child gather relevant vocabulary and outside knowledge that they can use to understand the story better.
3. Self-Monitoring for Understanding
As a reader, it is essential to build metacognitive skills. In the context of reading, metacognitive skills refer to the ability to check in on your understanding of a text as you read it. To help your child develop this essential strategy, verbally reflect on characters, settings, themes, and events as you read.
4. Visualizing
Another reading comprehension strategy that advanced readers commonly use is visualization. By visualizing a story as it unfolds, your child can immerse themselves in a book to better understand what is happening. Explore our reading comprehension activities below to discover fun ways to practice this skill at home.
5. Questioning
By asking questions about a story, readers can better understand what it's about. To practice this comprehension strategy, prompt your child to ask questions as they (or you) read. Keep in mind that it is important to ensure these questions are relevant and that they focus on building a deeper understanding of the story (rather than being surface-level questions). For example, good questions often start with words/phrases like "why" or "how come."

Want to know how you can support your child's reading comprehension skills? Reading comprehension activities are the best way! So, let's look at some reading comprehension exercises you can try at home.

10 Fun Reading Comprehension Activities To Do At Home

Below, you'll find ten practical and fun reading comprehension activities to help you support your child's reading development.

1. Build Your Own Character

Help your child find materials around the house or outside in nature and recreate characters from a book you've read. This activity will help your child reflect on their understanding of the characters in the story.
This fun reading comprehension activity promotes the following reading comprehension strategy:
Self-monitoring for understanding

2. Act It Out

After reading a book with your child, take turns acting out the main events in the story. Retelling events like this is fun and will help your child check in on their understanding of the story.
This activity supports the following reading comprehension strategy:
Self-monitoring for understanding

3. Mind Movie/Draw It

As you read a story aloud to your child, have them close their eyes and paint a picture in their mind. Then, have your child capture this mind movie on paper with felts, crayons, or paint.
This fun reading comprehension activity will help your child practice the following reading comprehension strategy:
4. Sharing Your Connections

Take turns with your child sharing connections to a story. For instance, sharing personal connections or connections between the story and other books or events in the real world. Having your child connect the story to external experiences will help them better understand what they are reading. In addition, sharing your own connections provides a helpful example for your child to follow.
This comprehension activity promotes the following reading comprehension strategy:
5. Comprehension Cube

Build a cube out of paper or cardboard and write a question on each side. Take turns rolling the cube and answering the question that shows up on top. Some examples of good questions include:

What did the story make you think about?

Was there a time when you felt the same way as the main character?

What is one thing that stood out to you in the story?

What is a question you had about the story?

This is one of our favorite reading comprehension activities. It will help your child reflect on and communicate their understanding of the story.
Using this activity, you can help your child practice the following reading comprehension strategies:

Making connections

Self-monitoring for understanding

Questioning

6. Extend the Story

After reading a story, have your child add to it (independently or with your help). For example, create a verbal extension of the story or create a sequel with pictures and words. This will help your child revisit the story's events and consider what might happen next.
This fun reading comprehension activity helps practice the following comprehension strategies:

Making predictions

Self-monitoring for understanding

Visualizing

Questioning

7. "I Predict.." (Two Reading Comprehension Activities in One)

This exercise involves two reading comprehension activities - one before the story begins and the other while reading.

Before reading a story, examine the front cover. Ask your child what they think the story might be about. Then, take a picture walk. This involves flipping (or scrolling) through the pages, looking at the pictures, and sharing predictions about the story.

While reading, take the time to pause and discuss what you think might happen next based on the events that have already unfolded.
This reading comprehension activity helps with the following comprehension strategies:

Making predictions

Self-monitoring for understanding

8. Create a Book Trailer

After reading a story, record your child sharing why they would recommend the book. Then, have them select a few of their favorite pages to discuss. Finally, if they want, have them share the trailer with friends and family!
This fun activity promotes the following reading comprehension strategy:
Self-monitoring for understanding

9. Story Puzzle

With your child, brainstorm and write down the things that happened in the story - in any order. Be sure to write each event on a separate piece of paper. Once you're finished, have your child put the events in order.
This reading comprehension activity will help your child practice the following reading comprehension strategy:
Self-monitoring for understanding

10. K-W-L (Know, Wonder, Learned)

Before reading a book, have your child share something they already know about the story and something they wonder about. For extra fun, record your child sharing their thoughts so they can look back at the video! Be sure to share what you know and wonder as well.

After you've read the story, share something you learned with each other.
This comprehension activity facilitates the following reading comprehension strategies:

Making connections

Self-monitoring for understanding

Questioning

Ready to give these reading comprehension exercises a try? Keep in mind that not all children's books are created equal! When trying these activities at home, it's important to choose a good book that will keep your child engaged.

What makes a good children's book? Check out this article to learn how to choose the best book for your child - What Makes a Good Children's Book.

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Let's play with math today! We have a list of the best homemade cool math games that make math fun! So whether you are looking for entertainment or a learning math game for home, homeschool or the classroom...we have the best cool math game ideas around. There are so many ways to play with numbers...

Best DIY Cool Math Games

Why math games? We home-school and as we have added new kiddos to our family we ended our "school time" earlier than normal and I am looking for ways to ease back into a form of "catch-up" school time with some fun games.
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These cool math games are perfect for helping our kids keep learning alive and refreshing their math skills.

1. Negative Number Hopscotch

Thanks to Learning Ideas for inspiring today's theme. I just LOVE her hopscotch in positive and negative numbers. That is brilliant. I have struggled incorporating negative numbers into our kids curriculum.

2. Flyswatter Game

Number Fly Swatter Game - This game is silly and will get the wiggles and giggles out as well!

3. Dice Math Game

Numbers Card Game - This simple game can be created with a few pieces of paper and dice. It will help those who are learning numbers.

4. Shape Math

Geometric shapes - Here is a hands-on activity to get kids feeling math!

5. Homemade Dominoes

Make stone dominoes. I love how they made a set of stones labeled with both numbers and one with the amount. Great for young learners.

6. Snap Plus One

Snap Plus One - This game is great for elementary age kids. It is a card game with a twist.

7. Number Toss

Play number toss. This game is super simple to make with an old egg carton. What a fun and versatile math game.

8. Collage Math

Shape Collage - This simple game for preschoolers teaches geometry with play.

9. Number Hunt

Go on a number hunt. Have your sheet of math problems and when your kids figure out the answer have them let you know by running to the number!

10. Dominoes & a Deck of Cards

Dominos and a Deck of Cards - Math concepts are fun and games with these traditional family game night supplies!

11. Water Bead Math

Water Bead Math Game - I love the feel of these and they can be put in play for math too!

12. Tic Tac Toe Cool Math

Playing Tic-Tac-Toe with negative versus even numbers.

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Concentrating during a math class can be challenging for kids. But taking the whole learning exercise outdoors is a fun and exciting way to break the learning barrier and have your child enjoy math. Continue reading to know more about outdoor math games for your kids.

Outdoor Math Games

Outdoor games can serve as a way for kids to channel the excess energy they use for jumping, screaming, and running into learning math. Even fresh air and outdoor scenery can be sufficient motivations to play outdoor math games. Here are some outdoor math games for your kids:

The number line game

The number line in math textbooks is similar to the number line game. You can play this game with your child in the driveway or playground. The only things you need for this game are a piece of chalk and an open space.

To play the number line math outdoor activity game, draw squares on the ground with numbers inside. Depending on your child's knowledge of numbers, you can use positive or negative integers on the number line. When dealing with toddlers, direct them to jump on each number while counting aloud.

If you want your child to make a subtraction, say 6 - 3, have them jump on the number 6, then guide them three steps towards the left. For positive integers, they are to move toward the right. This game is exciting and can teach your kids number recognition, addition, subtraction, mental math, etc.

The frisbee game

The frisbee game is one of the most popular outdoor math activities. Get a frisbee, a permanent marker, and paper for recording scores. Write the numbers 1 to 10 along the edge of the frisbee before throwing it. Whoever catches it, will have to solve math problems depending on where their fingers touch.

Games like these can serve as fun outdoor math activities for preschoolers. Younger kids can identify the numbers they touch and collect objects to represent the numbers. For instance, if your child's finger touches 3, 9, 2, and 10, they could add 3 + 9 + 2 + 10 to get 24.

Bowl, sum up, and create!

You need a ball, index cards, cello tape, plastic bottles, paper, and a pen for this game. Write numbers on the index cards before taping them on plastic bottles or aluminum cans. You may then put the numbered bottles far from children in a line.

Then, have your kid throw the balls as if they were bowling. On the paper, they should record the numbers their balls hit and sum them up. This game teaches your child to strategize, reason mathematically, and can even boost their problem-solving skills.

War game

Get items like empty aluminum cans, sticky notes, markers or pens, and a water squirter for the war game. Use the pen to write numbers on the post-it notes, say 1 to 10, and paste the post-its on the cans. Then, arrange the cans in a straight row.

Have your child use the water squirter to take aim and knock over the empty aluminum cans. For every container your child knocks over, they can choose to find the sum, difference, or product of the indicated numbers. This outdoor math activity can help your child with number recognition, addition, subtraction, and multiplication. It is suitable for children of all ages.

Egg race

Outside math activities like the Egg Race require more than one kid to play. The materials you need for this game are eggs, spoons, and baskets. Give each child ten plastic eggs to place on a spoon and race to the finish line.

If an egg drops, they have to go back to the starting point to get a new egg to complete the race. Once any child gets to the finish line, they are to count the number of eggs they successfully took across the finish line and deduct it from the initial number (10). This game is fun and can have your kids solidify their knowledge of subtraction.

Ping pong throwing

The ping pong throwing game is a fun outdoor math activity that can help your child learn counting and number recognition. To play this math game outdoors, you need baskets, ping pong balls or small stones, index cards, and chalk. Get your index cards and use them to label the baskets with numbers.

Call out a number so that your child can write it down with the chalk. When they write the correct number, have your child throw the specified number of balls into the basket. Ping pong throwing can help your kids with numbers identification.

Bounce and Shoot

You need a chalk or number cards, a ball, and a tin can to play the Bounce and Shoot game. Use chalk to write the numbers 1 through 10 on the pavement; you can also mark numbers with cards and put the latter on the pavement. Ask the kids fundamental math problems like, "How much is 10 - 4?" The child should run to the number on the floor, bounce the ball six times, and kick it towards the tin can before going back to have their seat. This game ensures your students understand math questions and are not just guessing answers.

Roll the die

Outdoor math games that involve rolling dice can help your kids with number recognition and understanding of basic operations. To play the Roll the Dice outdoor math game, you need dice and a piece of paper. Then guide the kids as they roll the die and write down the number of black dots they get from every roll.

After a specific number of rolls (like two or three throws) let them add, subtract, multiply or divide the outcomes. For example, a child can roll the die three times and get 6, 2, and 3. Have them sum or subtract the numbers depending on their grade.

Times Table Quest

For the Times Table Quest, get a soccer net, balls, and chalk. Set the soccer goalpost at one end of the playing ground and write numbers 1 - 20 at the opposite end. Ask the children some times table questions like "How much is 2 x 5?"

When a child answers correctly, they should stand on the correspondent number and try to score a goal. Each goal they score should earn them a point. At the end of the game, children should sum up their scores, and the kid with the highest score wins. This math outdoor activity can improve a child's knowledge of times table through healthy competition.

Water Balloon

You need water, balloons, and chalk to play this game. Fill the balloons with water and label them with any numbers you wish. Using the chalk, draw equations on the floor, and the answers should match any number on the balloons. When a child solves an equation and gets the correct result, have them pick and burst the balloon with a corresponding number. You could prepare a worksheet with solutions to predetermine the numbers you can paste on the balloons.

What does the clock say?

To play this game, you need chalk and ample space. Draw a big circle on the playground to represent a clock and add minute marks using different colors of chalk to attract kids. Choose two kids from the lot to be the hour hand and second hand, respectively. For instance, you can call out 6 o'clock, so one child stands on where 6 should be, while the other stands on where 12 should be. You could also complicate the game by asking them to represent half past 9, quarter to 10, etc.

Frog leap

Outside math games may involve jumping and leaping. For this one, you just need a measuring tape and instruction for your kids to jump like frogs from one end to another. After that, they should use the measuring tape to see how far they jumped. This outdoor math game teaches kids measurements.

Math fact? Jump!

For this exciting math activity, you need chalk, flashcards, and a piece of paper with about twenty math equations. To begin, draw grid lines and write numbers in each square. You could do it in a scattered form like 24, 32, 1, 4, 64, etc. so that kids can't guess where any answer falls.

Have two kids compete against each other and make them stay on two opposite sides of the grid line. Put up the flashcard for everyone to see and have the kids solve the equation, then race to the correct answer with both feet inside the square.

Race against the flashcards

For this game, you need masking tape and flashcards. Tape six to ten flashcards on the floor to represent equations like 12 + 42 = X, 13 + 34 =X, etc. Then have your kid call out the answer or write it down.

They can only move to the following mathematical problem after getting the correct answer to the previous one. This game can help kids learn basic math and teach them to work independently.

Conclusion

Brighterly is an online math learning platform with tutors who understand that math does not need to be an enduring task; it can be enjoyable for everyone. So, parents and teachers are encouraged to play math games outside with their children. The platform also suggests exercises that can make kids quickly forget that they are learning math.

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