Hands-On Reading For Tactile Learners
- Deanna Mack
- Feb 22, 2017
- 3 min read
My Kindergarten and 1st grader who dreads reading are both loving our new hands on reading activities! #winning This is read it, build it, write it for 3 in 1 hands on learning. "I love it! This is so fun mommy!" I get so tickled hearing that lol! Mama realized it was time for some Hands-On Reading For Tactile Learners!!!
My Kindergartener is just learning how to read and is doing fairly well and my first grader can read ok but they both get frustrated if it takes too long to sound out words they do not know. Reading just really frustrates them sometimes. So I began to incorporate more hands on reading activities and thought I should share for all my moms and dads with early readers.
Another reading activity is a game called ***BANG***!!! The kids love the competition and its 2 fold since I use both levels of sight words with both of them they are learning more words together and we make a game of it! Click the pic for more info on how to play the game!
And who doesn't love B-I-N-G-O!?!
The more practice our children get with print that they enjoy the better they will feel about reading. =D Anything that causes undue stress needs a face lift that's all lol! We don't have to throw away the reading lesson just switch it as necessary to reflect what is relevant and enjoyable. Reading should be fun to encourage a lifelong love of learning through books.
Here are some more tips for amping up the reading love <3:
1. If reading is too stressful on their grade level, read the book to them for a full week. Each day add an activity that goes along with the book to bring the book more to life. Also, have your young reader follow along with you as you read and stop every now and then to have them help you read. By the end of the week they will already be more fluent with the book and may be ready to read it on their own with little help.
2. Have them illustrate their spelling list into a mini book.
3. Play sight words hopscotch by laying all the words on the floor and as they read the word they advance by hopping to the next word. A prize at the end would be fun!
5. Cook items from the stories or find recipes from the setting of the story.
6. Illustrate the story.
7. Memorize quotes from stories.
8. Make up songs about the story.
9. Act out the story.
11. Listen to audio books.
12. Take a book based field trip!
And the list goes on....! For more activities search "reading hands on activities" and if you are looking for African-Centered Curriculum check out our upcoming Maelewano Homeschool Curriculum Guide. Includes everything you see here for grades K-5th as well as African History, reading, math, science, art, and more with focus on African literature and hands on activities. Connect with me on Facebook and subscribe =D!
Keep reading, be patient, and Hands-On Reading For Tactile Learners to the rescue!
Ase,
Deanna
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