I’m hoping that this Reading Bingo game will help your kids get excited in a new way about reading and books. We must give kids free time for reading! Reading Bingo For Elementary & Middle School Kids Ages 7 to 13 Not to mention, it really helps have our house filled with books.Ĭhoice about what to read with support at home is essential. It also helps if we read books aloud to them.

Kids need to read to become better readers. So I’ll start with a few things I do know for sure. I’m still growing back into my confidence in sharing and advising. It meant I had to throw out what I thought I knew and try my best to figure out what would work for each of my individual children.Īnd frankly, it made it hard for me to give too much advice on this blog for many years. Particularly when raising two children who between them have neurological differences, physical issues, and chronic illnesses. There is no one size fits all approach for growing a reader, growing a decent human being, growing a thriving child, or being an adult. The beauty of our world - and the infinite trickiness in parenting and teaching - is that we all are unique. Sometimes it’s hard to motivate yourself to read a book someone else picks for you.

I think this is why a lot of my former book clubs turned into dinner and wine clubs. At least, not until you fall in love with the assigned book. Reading assigned books has a place but it’s constraining and not generally very motivating. Not to mention that instead of reading for hours like they used to, they’d read for the specified homework time of 20 minutes then do their log and STOP reading.Īnd why I’m always looking for meaningful ways to engage kids in books - ways that don’t become dreaded chores to check off their to-do list.Īs I consider what works for my own kids AND what works for me as an adult reader, I think so much boils down to choice. My own kids despised them - and I watched as their interest in reading declined and declined because of reading logs. I very much dislike reading logs for kids because, in my experience, they do more harm than good. It gave me the idea to make my own bingo game for you all to encourage your kids to read more books.īut before I tell you about the game, I want to give you some context…

Over the winter vacation, we watched the Harry Potter movies along with a BINGO game for each one.

Printable blank bingo cards book