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Type: Reading
Skills: Language & Literacy,
Play & Creativity
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The ability to read helps children succeed in school more than any other skill he or she can develop. One of the best ways to get kids interested in reading is to make it fun. In this activity, you’ll learn another creative way to make reading fun for your kids.
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What We Learn |
Literacy
Language development
The parts to a story (beginning, middle, end) |
Supply List |
Storybook
Stuffed animals, toys, or other props |
How-To |
An easy yet effective way to make reading more fun is to add props to the storytelling experience.
Simply choose a book and then gather props which correspond to each character or page of the story. For example, in the book “In the Ocean,” you can gather stuffed animals – a clownfish, a turtle, an octopus and a shark – representing each of the characters in the story. If you don’t have toys or stuffed animals representing the elements of your particular book, have your kids draw their own picture of that character or prop.
Give a stuffed animal prop to each child in your storytelling group. As you’re reading the story from the book, encourage each child to act out the corresponding part of the story you are reading.
Using props and having kids act out the story while you read to them really makes the experience fun and expands their imaginations. |
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