How to Teach Reading with Video Games

Educational video games can help you teach your kindergartner how to read. In fact, some reading games are easy enough for toddlers. That's right, even a toddler can learn to read using computer games.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• touch screen computer monitor (nice touch, but not really mandatory)
• Internet access

1. Download Robot Reader games. They have a variety of activities and learning games that are designed for pre-readers to understand and enjoy without too much adult intervention.

2. Visit Starfall.com and go through the phonics activities for learning to read. Starfall offers video games, coloring activities, games and even free printable certificates of completion.

3. Provide plenty of real-life reading opportunities for your child. For example, Bob Books are easy readers written almost entirely with three letter words.

4. Supplement with "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Lessons" It's a book that gives a script for parents to engage in learning-to-read conversations with their children. While some of the scripts are repetitive, children really seem to enjoy the word games and being able to read sentences and then stories.

Resources

• Bob Books, set 1 for Early Readers
• Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
• Robot Reader Reading and Phonics Games
• Virtual Homeschooling Convention
• How and why I write 3 articles a day for eHow

[sunshine11219]

on 11/1/2008 starfall is a great webiste for pre k and k good tip