Games can be a great way to have fun as a family as well as improve your child's reading and vocabulary skills. The following games were taken from The Reading Teacher Vol. 62. No. 4 December/January 2009 in an article titled "The Games Children Play" by Nancy Padak and Timothy Rasiniski.
Word Theater is played much like Charades. Put vocabulary words on slips of paper. Players take turns drawing a slip and silently acting out the word. Other players guess the word being acted.
20 Questions is a game where you secretly select a word from a shared reading text. The child can ask 20 yes-or-no questions in order to guess which word you are thinking of. The child should be allowed to look at the text from which the selected word comes.
Word-Part Rummy requires cards with prefixes, suffixes and roots that can go together to make words. Have enough cards so that there are about 10 per player. After shuffling the cards, deal five to each player. The rest are kept in a pile, face down.Players look for cards that create words and place them on the table. Take turns drawing a card and discarding a card if you don't have any matches. The first one to use all of the cards in his/her hand, wins.
