25+ Gift Ideas For Learning To Read

It is that time of year when we scramble to find Christmas presents that a meaningful and thoughtful. This is what led me to create this gift list of handpicked phonics and reading products. Not only are these reading products great as gifts, but they are also perfect for classroom settings(if your budget allows). Some of these products come highly recommended by my Home-school pals too.

Maybe you are looking for guidance to teach your child to read or perhaps you are looking of ways to assist your teacher friend in their workplace? How about gifting a learning tool to the classroom? Maybe your child’s teacher doesn’t need another coffee mug but instead would appreciate some hands-on learning games and products so that they can continue to teach young children to read and write.

We have hand-selected 25 products that are great learning games and tools and you can see the full list here. Make sure you pop back as we add more and more products as they become available on the market. We would also LOVE for you to share your product reviews and suggestions too, make sure to leave a comment below if you know a product that is worthy of a mention to this list!.

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo: Life Over Cs]

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