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Are you looking for some reading games to play with your kids this winter? Here are some quick links to some amazing Amazon reading games to play with your kids that will help them with their reading and have fun at the same time!  If you are interested, click on the image to directly purchase from Amazon! Many of these games would be great for a family game night!

Conversation Cubes (Many ages)

Having conversations with your child is so important to reading development. It increases vocabulary, supports writing development and increases comprehension. Also, engaging in conversations with your child is a wonderful bonding time. These cubes can be used as a whole family activity to learn more about each other, practice language skills and have fun!

Think Fun Zingo (PreK-Grade 2)

Are you looking for a fun way to practice sight words with your kids? Check this game out! It was developed by educators. Kids will have a blast playing this bingo like game and they will master their sight words at the same time!

Dabble Word Game (Grade 2 and up)

This is an award winning spelling game to play with your kids who are ages 8 and up.  The goal is to spell 5 words quickly with your 20 letter tiles. The first person to spell the words wins! Your children will having fun playing while practicing their spelling and developing their vocabularies.

Play on Words (Grade 1 and up)

This is a wonderful word game to play with the whole family. This will help review phonics skills such as short vowels, digraphs (ch, sh), blends (bl, sk), and vowel teams (ai, ee) and many more phonics skills that your child has learned in school. 

This is a making words game where players can add letters to other player’s words to make new words and gain points.  This game works for a variety of ages!

Wordplay for Kids (Ages 8-12)

This is a game where kids are given two letters and they need to think of a word to spell with the two letters somewhere in the word. This is another game that will reinforce phonics skills and help with spelling and vocabulary.

Tall Tales (Ages 4 and up)

This is a game that involves using your imagination and can work for a variety of ages. Players take turns creating a story using the game pieces and scenes. Storytelling helps develop vocabulary, language skills and can positively impact writing skills.

Let me know what you think of any of these games in the comments section! I hope to do some more Amazon posts in which I link helpful reading resources, favorite read alouds, reading games and activities and more!