12 Ways to Make Reading Interactive

Here are 12 ways to be a reading hero for your kids – they’ll love when their favorite stories come to life with these activities.

Reading is a great way to connect with kids.  Sometimes reading a books together smooths a rough day or gives your big kid a chance to be your baby again, if just for a moment.  But it reading doesn’t have to be passive, there are lots of ways to make reading an interactive activity.

If you find yourself in a reading rut, try some fun reading related activities:

• Draw a picture together from the story.

• Make up a different story about the characters.

• Look at a comic and have your child tell the story.

• Listen to a book on tape together.

• Ask your beginning reader to read a toddler book to your younger child.

• Act out the story with stuffed animals.

• Ask questions about the story –would you have done the same thing as the main character?

• Make up a different ending.

• Make up a fantasy about a part of the story.

• Tell the same story from a different perspective, such as the Three little pigs from the point of view of the wolf.

• Make puppets of the characters, this can be as simple as drawing pictures and cutting them out to paste on sticks.

• Merge characters from different stories, What if Winnie the Pooh met Peter Rabbit?

How do you like to bring stories to life with your kids?

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