Reading Vocabulary Activities

A parent was working with her children who had some problems with reading vocabulary. The problem was the children didn’t fully understand all the words in the books they were reading. The children could retell the story and describe what happened in general terms. They could describe the characters and what they did. They could even describe the setting, although not in great detail. But they didn’t understand all the words used in the book and this made it difficult for them to fully understand plot, setting, and characters. To help solve this problem, I showed the child an interactive game on the computer.


The game is like a concentration matching puzzle game. The students flip over two “cards.” They can make a match if they have a word to a picture from the book representing the word. They can even make the game more or less challenging by selecting a smaller or larger number of “cards.” They get many more problems in a single game than in a worksheet and the nature of the game makes the problems much less onerous, even though there are more of them. And they can play many games because the “cards” are mixed up differently each time!

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