Summer Reading Bingo and Book List for Older Kids

When kids are home for summer break, we parents often try to encourage them to keep doing some things that are vaguely educational in addition to the resting and relaxing that summer is all about.

If you have older kids who aren’t involved in the summer reading program at your library anymore, check out this fun summer reading bingo printable from I Can Teach My Child.

It gives kids lots of options for different kinds of books to read, such as biographies, graphic novels, books about science and more.

The blog post has a lot of great ideas for books in each category included on the card as well if you need some help.

You could also take this idea and personalize it with book genres your child is more likely to read (mine for instance would never read a sports biography or book based on a video game) to make it easier for them to get a bingo.

Get this printable and book list from I Can Teach My Child.

[Photo: I Can Teach My Child.]

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125 more activities to get your child to read.

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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