Year 7 Play and fun
Engaging Educational Games for Your 7-Year-Old
Even though your child is most likely starting to read on their own at this point, games and activities can still be an enjoyable method to support their phonics development, word identification, and vocabulary growth. Signs, notices, posters, newspaper headlines, TV advertisements, and other materials may catch your child's attention more. Take advantage of this fresh chance to read! This serves to further emphasize the need for learning to read. Try out some of our entertaining math games and activities to help your kids with their numeracy skills, confidence-building, and academic content.
Educational Games and Activities for Your 7-Year-Old
1. Spoken Word Games
Enjoy and memorize poetry (there are many excellent examples on Michael Rosen's website) and join online fan clubs for authors; these groups typically include games, jokes, and enjoyable activities.
Play with words. Look for words within words or try coming up with new terms, such as smoke tube for chimney or stepevator for elevator.
Engage in games like Articulate.
2. Phonics Games
Perform word searches together before creating your own.
Engage in word/spelling games like Boggle, Bananagrams, and Junior Scrabble to focus on combining letter sounds to form words.
Write a word (perhaps from the weekly spelling bee), cut it out, and have your child reassemble the words in the correct order.
3. Memory Games
Try memorizing restaurant and café menus.
Write down directions to familiar places and have your child memorize them: "Turn right, cross the roundabout, go past the candy store, and it's the second house on the left."
Using weekly spelling words, play a game of spelling pairs. Make a word grid with each word written twice in different boxes, then cut them out, mix them, and play a matching game.
4. Listening Games
Describe a picture and have your child draw it based on your description. Compare the drawings afterward.
Create riddles about familiar objects or people and have your child guess them.
Play "Repeat the Sound" where you make a sound or gesture and your child mimics it, then adds a new one for you to repeat back and forth.
5. Action Games
Play Twister and have your kids read the instructions to determine where to place their hands or feet.
Play charades with family and friends.
Write action words like "run," "walk," "jump," "sit" on pieces of paper and have your child perform the activity and read the word.
6. Tactile Games
Use models, puppets, and props to create a show that tells stories.
Make posters, book covers, and gifts using materials like sandpaper, fabric, paint, and buttons.
Play with fridge magnets to create poems, stories, and messages.
7. Video Games
Invest in educational computer, iPad, or DS games and allow your kids to read the manuals on their own. Discuss how to play the games and ask your child to explain the instructions.
Watch story adaptations like Dr. Seuss's "Horton Hears a Who" or Julia Donaldson's "The Gruffalo" and discuss the differences between the book and the movie.
Show your child helpful websites like YouTube and iTunes and explain how reading helps make decisions.
8. Road Trip Games
Use I-Spy Car Journeys, I-Spy Cars, and other Michelin I-Spy books.
Bring joke books for long car trips and take turns telling jokes or riddles.
Encourage your kids to use the satnav, read road signs, and give you directions.
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