My daughter is having some minor trouble in reading, need fun games and ideas to help her have fun reading?

Question

My daughter is 9 years old.

Answer 1

take turns reading pages or find fun magazines she'd like to read. Read everything, menus, street signs, anything. even putting post-its around the house on things she knows to help her identify the object with it's written word.

Answer 2

If your daughter is having trouble reading then trying to read is not going to be fun.

Sometimes it helps to determine what level she is reading at.... let the school help her to read and increse that level, and you pick out books for her to read at home that are a lot lower level then they are trying to teach at school. These books that are "easy" to read can then be fun to read.

Also I highly suggest reading to her. Get a few "Illustrated Classics" that you think she might be interested in. The words will be easy to understand, and nearly every page has a picture to look at while you are reading which helps with comprehension. Also it makes for great 1 on1 time. In a few months you can go back to those books again, and take turns reading the pages. Since she already knows the story, reading the story will be a lot easier. Don't try to read the whole book again (unless she really wants to). Just pick out a favorite part of the book and let her read.

Also, many of us grew up learning to read by reading comic books. Nobody seems to do that anymore, but once again, it has pictures, they are short and interesting, and you may not ever learn how to solve the worlds problems by reading about Uncle Scrooge and his money bin, you certainly can have a lot of fun reading.

Answer 3

She probably needs more interesting stories

When I was in school at the age of 10 I think, our teacher, who was real cool, read us "Charlottes Web" and I found the story so delightful I went to the library and check out a copy and read it along with her in the classroom.

When I was 6 my mother read a sci - fi story to me that she brought home from work (she worked at Follets Publishing) and it turned me into a writer.

I sat down and wrote my own story and use the TV guide as my dictionary.

Boring stories make for boring reading.

In Junior High James Bond had just become a big thing and Ian Flemming was still alive and we read ALL the books in paperback. I'd buy the new one the moment it came out.

Since I liked Sci Fi so much I read every Sci Fi book in our Junior High and fell in love with Dr. Alan E. Nourse's writing. He's a physician who also writes sex education books for kids. I must have read "Scavengers in Space" 20 times. I can still recite it almost word for word.

I got more into writing and wanted to write for TV so I started reading Daily Variety every day, cover to cover.

Reading is about motivation.

I can't read anything today, because I know I can write that good or better (I was published at age 16).

The ONLY thing I still read is the EArth's Child series, because I want to see where Jean Auel takes it. I started reading that back when I was still trying to find myself as a writer. so I read a lot. As Erica Jong once said, I was a voracious reader!

The last thing I read was Auel's last installment and I felt the writing was not quite as good as the first two.

The next thing I will probably read is her last installment!

Answer 4

Ask her to tell YOU what the pictures mean and let her create her own story...and you fill in the gaps....I had a reading programme for underpriviledged children.there are NO wriong answers. It was FREE....had book drives and the newspaper locally was the drop off point. Up to 18 children before I got too sick..into the third year, a kniock at my door and there stood the little girl we thought had autism in the beginningsaying...."Now i am ready to read to YOU...and so we did..."....she struggled through 3 chapters of her book...as the programme brought them from just reading INTO their books.....I went back inside and wept....I had finally done something right I felt.....I still smile when I think of this......let her express herself to you ..and make the books about what she is interested in.

Answer 5

If you can afford it, find a computer game that involves reading that she enjoys. Also, set up rewards for reading certain amounts. If she is only having minor problems, reading a lot should help sort some of it out. Also, talk to her about what she reads. It helps improve comprehension.

Answer 6

Find what interests her and then give her books on those to read -if horses-books on horses and animals,if Barbie then Barbie books. Heard a Teacher even used Comic Books-and had very good results. There's also V-Tech and all kinds of electronic (look like a computer) that generate interest in reading but forced reading even if its for pleasure yields very little positive results. But a Family TIME for Reading works for even if she initially does not like reading she knows this time is set aside for ALL to read and will join in. Also reading to the child-either a parent or a older brother or sister(can even arrange a special reward for older sibling) Children like to read if parents read. Go to www.creativeteaching.com for lots of good ideas and advice

Answer 7

Hey, something i do with my daughter: I bought these plastic jars full of letters and consonant blends, little white and rainbow tiles small and square. I take them and dump them all in a bowl and mix them up and draw fifteen, then I have her make a word, and by the end we are both making up huge words to test each other. Also I make words and if she can get them right, the she gets to keep the letter and make about 20 of my words into a stack that I have to read they end up being huge ridiculous and nonsensical words, sounding like foreign languages, We love it! Like Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!!! and guess where the word comes from. I get words from Little mermaid, Willy wonka, and Marry Poppins etc...

Answer 8

At Barnes and Noble bookstore, in the childrens book area, they sell a game called Silly Sentences and there is also a rhyming one. My son is 6 and loves to play Silly Sentences. It cost about $9.00 and it's really funny for the kids to make up ridiculous sentences. It also helps them to identify sight words and commnon words. Give it a try!

Answer 9

My son has a reading jar and when he reads I put money in it most of the time he reads two books a night and he gets a dollar for each book and at the end of the school year he will get his jar full of money if he reads and empty if he doesn't.

Answer 10

Dont make her hate it. Just read to her, she'll pick it up.

I HATED READING in school. HATED IT. we had that stupid bookit program. it totally killed any desire i had to read.

And my reading comprehension was post collegiate through elementary. I didnt suffer any. I just had to enjoy it without someone making me do it. I eventually took up reading encyclopedias. Finished school 2 years early...

She really will come around to books, if you dont push the issue, or make her difficulties into a magnified problem.

My mom started reading books to me, little house on the prairie, and leave them in my room at bed time. She'd leave off at a good part, and after a while i just started reading on my own.

So, I'd say, dont make an issue out of her trouble, just read to her. Take her to the book store and let her pick out books that interest her.