Your reader can boost their literacy skills all summer long with these fun activities. Have them go for five in a row, or try to fill the whole board!
| contribution • reduce • estimate • influence • therefore Look up the definition of each word, and write it down. Then, write a paragraph using all five words. | Draw a map that shows the setting in a book you’re reading. Add details from the book or from your imagination. | Find an example of each of these text features: a table of contents, an index, a glossary, a labeled diagram, a captioned photo, a heading, and a subheading. | Go on a grammar scavenger hunt. In a book you’re reading, find and list ten nouns, ten verbs, and ten adjectives. | Interview friends and family members about their favorite books. Ask them to tell you what each book is about and what they like about it. |
| Read two informational articles on the same topic. List the important details that are included in both texts. | Record a video to show how to make a craft, learn a skill, or play a game. Use words like first, next, while, then, before, now, and finally as you explain what to do. | Read a biography or an autobiography. List five facts you learned from the book. | Start a word collection. Listen for words you don’t know, look up their definitions, and write them down. Add a star next to each word every time you use it yourself! | Draw a picture of yourself standing next to a book character. Label details in the picture to show how you and the character are the same and how you are different. |
| Go on a suffix scavenger hunt. Take a book, and try to find at least one word that ends with each of these suffixes: -ous, -ive, -tion, -ize, -al, and -ness. | Read a new book, and write a review. Describe what you liked and what you didn’t like. Share your review with a friend or family member. | FREE SPACE | Write at least one word for each of these Latin roots: ject (to throw), port (to carry), tact (to touch), rupt (to break), form (to make), and vis (to see). Use a dictionary to help! | Read about another part of the world. Create a travel brochure with facts and information, including interesting sights, fun activities, and delicious foods. |
| Record yourself reading a chapter of a book. Practice first to make your voice sound natural as you read. Share your recording with a younger friend or family member. | Write to your favorite author. Share what you like about their books. Ask a question or suggest an idea for a new book. | Spring, duck, toast, note, and park are all multiple meaning words. For each word, draw a picture that shows two different meanings, and write a sentence to describe it. | Read a science fiction or fantasy book. Describe a character who reminds you of someone you know or a scene from the book that reminds you of something in your life. | Tell a story by taking photos to show the setting, the characters, and the major events. Share the photos and your story with a friend or family member. |
| Read a realistic fiction book. What lesson do the characters learn about life? Write a paragraph about this theme. | Use the letters in Summer Reading Bingo Challenge to make as many smaller words as you can. | In a book you’re reading, find five words you don’t know. Try to figure out the meaning by looking for clues in the words around it. Then, use a dictionary to check your guesses. | Find a poem you like, and practice reading it aloud. Then, create a beat to go with it. (Try tapping a pencil on a table!) Record yourself reading the poem in rhythm to the beat. | Read two books by the same author. Draw a Venn diagram to show what is similar and what is different. |
Return in August with your completed bingo board and minutes logged in Beanstack to earn a tasty treat!
