Primary Reading Games: Fun Online Reading Games and Activities

Reading Is Fundamental's Games and Activities

Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) is a non-profit children's literacy organization that offers primary reading activities and games. The easy-to-navigate site features an activity lab, where primary kids can select a story, print it and draw illustrations to go with it.

The games station features fun ways to practice reading skills. Kids can play Supermarket Spree by reading a grocery list and picking out the items. Bilingual games include Alphabet Soup, an interactive word-search, and Picture Bars, a word matching game.

In the book zone, kids can watch animated stories and listen to songs. They can also chose from a wide selection of books to read online. The stories can be selected by subject and feature an online dictionary to boost vocabulary skills.

Primary Games' Word Exercises

Primary Games has word searches and crosswords to practice spelling and vocabulary. In I Spy, kids read a simple story to learn the highlighted vocabulary words. Story Links has online children's books. Farm Animals is a free online talking book that allows kids to click on words and hear them spoken.

In addition, PGTV is a child and parent-oriented video series, which discusses what games can be used as tools to build specific reading skills.. Other fun activities for kids on PGTV include a short lesson on how to use an apostrophe and a vocabulary-building game.

ABCya.com's Computer Games

ABCya.com has language arts interactive games and activities that have been either developed or approved by certified teachers. All of the lessons are modeled from primary grade lessons and incorporate reading development with learning keyboarding skills. Some first grade games include Alphabet Order, Sight Word Bingo and Spelling Practice.

Games for third graders have easy-to-follow instructions and voice navigation. With the Word Search Maker, kids can create and print their own word searches. In Word Clouds, kids generate their own 'clouds' by typing text in a box and pressing an arrow. The program allows them to alter their creation by changing fonts and colors and adding other graphic features.