Reading Comprehension Games
Reading comprehension games are a good way to take your child from the learning to read stage to the stage of reading books for information and pleasure. Reading comprehension is a long process, and one that we never finish. But in the early stages it is necessary for your child to move from the relatively mechanical stage of putting together words and sentences to the much more complex idea of gaining knowledge and understanding from what they are reading.
Reading comprehension games help to do this by activating their prior knowledge, by visualization of the concepts, by looking for clues and asking questions, and by practicing prediction. Games are particularly good at connecting knowledge, and then using this knowledge in sequence, inference and prediction to make or tell stories. Many online reading games help to take the child through this process, and allow them to explore the concepts they have learned at their own speed.
You can help your child really get involved with the process of reading, and many children find reading comprehension games so fascinating and fun that they will play by themselves in their own time. Learning is easier when it is fun, and these games can really prove this.
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