Do your children have a special place to read, a location full of pillows, good books, and great lighting? If not, why not find out how creating a reading nook for your children will help encourage of love of reading with your toddler, preschool, pre k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd grade student.
Kids Reading Nook
A reading nook doesn’t need to be fancy. It’s simply a special spot created especially to invite children to sit and read for a time.
Lighting & Pillows
Since the children will be curling up and reading at all times of the day, find a spot with good lighting or a place for a lamp. Sometimes the spots have great natural lighting. Other times the reading nooks have horrid lighting or the kids love curling up to read on dark winter nights. Pick up a good sturdy lamp to light the area.
Also make the nook comfortable for children to curl up and read. Fill it with pillows and blankets. You can add pillows of various sizes for the children to use. Large pillows are wonderful to sit on while smaller pillows help prop up books or give something to lean upon.
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Book Baskets
Search your house and stores for some good sized baskets to place in your reading nook. You’ll want the baskets big enough to hold books of various sizes yet sturdy enough to withstand some rough handling over the years. You can find matching baskets or spray paint the baskets for a uniform look.
Fill the baskets with various books. Include challenging books to increase your children’s vocabulary. Fun and easy books to encourage a love of reading. Find science books full of pictures for children to
browse through. Include beautiful art books for kids to admire.
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Children’s Reading Nook
Consider adding audio books to your reading nook. Everyone enjoys curling up and listening to a good story sometimes. Kids are no different. It’s also a great way of introducing your child to great
children’s literature that may be above their reading level.
Stuffed animals make a wonderful addition to the reading nook. The toys can keep your children company while they read, or be someone non threatening to practice reading aloud.
With a bit of thought and planning you can create a wonderful reading nook for your family. You’ll have a place to store library books, and your children will have a delightful spot to read.
Do you have a reading nook in your house?
Preschool Reading Nook
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Book recommendations for Kids
- Tons of books for preschoolers
- Must Read Kindergarten Reading Books pdf free, free Kindergarten Reading Level Book List, Favorite Read Aloud Books for Kindergarten
- 100 Books for 1st Graders to Read by Themselves – Level 1 Reading Books pdf free, Fun-to-Read First Grade Picture Books, First Grade Read Aloud Chapter Books
- Chapter Books for 1st Graders, 2nd Graders, and 3rd Graders – favorite series to keep kids reading!
- Best Read Aloud Chapter Books for 2nd Grade, Check out these 2nd Grade Reading Books pdf free
- Handy Grade 3 Reading Books pdf FREE
- Free 4th Grade Reading List pdf
- Printable Grade 5 Reading books pdf
- Exciting Historical Fiction Books for Kids and 25 Exciting Historical Fiction Books for 4th Graders
- Alphabet Books for Children, Transportation Books for Kids, Space Books for Kids that are out-of-this-world
- Funny Picture Books for kids of all ages, Sweet Picture Books about Family, Fun Zoo Books for Kids
- Books about community helpers, Beautiful Animal Books for Preschoolers, Preschool Color Books
- Creepy, Crawly Bug Books for Preschool kids, Rhyming Books for Kindergarten
- See all of our popular kids books to read
Reading Comprehension
- Handy, Reading Comprehension bookmarks (any book: fiction or non fiction)
- Free Book Report Template for elementary age students or Book Report Worksheets for elementary age kids
- Simple, one page Book Report Templates to ensure kids are understanding the main charaters, setting, and idea of what they are reading
- Super cute Pizza Book Report Idea with Free printable template or sandwich book report freebie
- Free 3rd Grade Book Report template choices
- 26 more clever Book Report Ideas, Ralph Waldo Poetry Worksheets
- See if kids remember the moral of the story with these FREE Aesop Fables Worksheets pdf
- This Library Scavenger Hunt helps kids learn to navigate a library or this Reading Scavenger Hunt
- Bookshelf Reading Log printable – to help encourage kids to read!
- How to teach elementary age students to write a Ralph Waldo Poetry Worksheets
- Free Parts of a Book Worksheet or these parts of a book for kids coloring pages that use playdough
- Plus, grab these super cute, free printable Star Wars bookmarks for kids!
Spring Activities
- How big is a Raindrop Experiment for kids, Marshmallow Shooters – go over 30 feet, or 2 ingredient Easy Slime Recipe, or How to Make a Lava Lamp
- Kids will no nuts over this simple Pop Rock Experiment, Density water balloon science experiment
- Fun-to-Make, Beautiful Chromatography Butterflies for kids, Vinegar and Baking soda Rocket Experiment, or Outrageously cool Lemon Clock project for kids,
- Making butter in a jar experiment, Balloon solid, liquid, gas hands-on activities, or Amazing Coke and mentos experiment worksheet, super cool potato plant maze, or silly egg in vinegar expeirment
- 100 things to do on a rainy day (for kids) or weather activities for kids
- Plant Activities for kids, Free Zoo fieldtrip worksheet, or Printable Animal Habitat Game
- 30 DIY Bird Feeder projects, Bubble Wrap Umbrella Craft Preschool, or cute toilet paper roll bunny crafts for kids
- 40 Earth Day Crafts, Easy Impressionism for Kids spring art project, pretty Pasta Butterfly Craft
- 100 Beautiful Flowers Crafts, Flower Mason Jar Lid Crafts, beautiful Painted Flower Craft Ideas, or splatter Art Flower Craft for Kids
- Printable Flower Craft for working on name recognition, painted flower craft preschool, egg carton tulip craft or cherry blossom craft, fun-to-make bubble art for kids
- EPIC Bubble painting, Colorful Snake Bubble Activity for kids, Spring pasta craft for kids, or FREE Zoo Scavenger Hunt
- 100 animal crafts, April Crafts for kids, April Activities for Kids, cute May Crafts , or May Activities for Kids!
- Homemade Bubble Solution for GIANT bubbles, free insect activities for preschoolers, or spring art ideas for grade 1, egg head spring craft
- Rainbow Eruptions Spring science, edible ice cream play doh, or easy pool noodle race track
- Fun-to-Make Bubble Art for Kids, Simple Windsock Craft for kids, or Rainbow Painting with Kids using hot wheel cars
Spring Printables
- Mowing the Lawn Spring Alphabet Game, Spring Alphabet Worksheets for preschoolers, or Alphabet Kite Craft
- Free Printable Flower matching game for preschoolers, Rainbow Spring Letter Tracing for kids, or Spring Flowers Letter Matching Printable
- Rainy Day Find-the-Letter Spring Worksheets, Raindrop Letters Matching activity for spring, or Hop to it! Frog alphabet matching game printable
- Free Printable Flower rhyming words, Bunny short i puzzles are a fun spring activities for kindergarten, or Cut, Paste, and Read Spring Sight words Reader
- April Showers Digraph Activities for second grade, Spring sight words game, o rfree printable sight word worksheets for spring
- Spring vowel worksheets for kindergarten, Cut, Paste & Read Bug Free Printable SIght Word Books pdf, or Hands-on Caterpillar spring cvc words activity
- Printable spring bubble word family games, April Writing Prompts Calendar, Free May Writing Prompts Worksheets for K-4th graders
- Rhyming Words Spring Worksheets, Simple, free Flower Rhyming Worksheets, or Printable Spring Emergent Reader
- Planting Carrots CVC Word Activity, Frog free printable sight words games pdf, Tulip spring rhyming words worksheet
- Carrot word family worksheets for kindergarten, or spring word searches
- Butterfly Counting to 30 Worksheets, Free printable kite Skip Counting Craft, or Spring counting playdough mats
- Insect Telling Time Puzzles, Count to 10 Insect printables for preschoolers, or Fraction Flowers worksheets for kids
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar flashcards – numbers, Bug Measuring Cards Free, or Raindrop counting activity for spring
- Spring carrot what comes next activity, Flower free printable number bond worksheets for kindergarten, or Flower Tracing Numbers 1-30 pdf
- Spring Math Puzzles to work on counting and addition, Spring Counting Clip Cards, or one to one correspondence activity with jelly beans
- Free printable missing number worksheets, Spring Bunny counting number tracing cards, or Teen Number sense Flower Addition Worksheet
- Shape Flower Playdough Mats, Printable Spring Tracing Worksheets, FLOWER shapes activities for kindergarten, or Vegetable counting from 1 to 10 clip cards
- Seeds Make 10 Addition Game, Spring Addition Counting Clip Cards, or Kite Color Matching – free printable learning colors for toddlers game
- Free printable How to plant a seed step by step worksheet, I Spy Farm Animals (great for visual discrimination & counting)
- Spring Worksheets Preschool, Backyard Critters Insect worksheets for kindergarten, or Spring color words worksheets using do-a-dot markers
- B is for Butterfly weekly theme, Fun Ant activities for preschoolers (prek / k), I is for Inchworm activities, or Match the Flower Worksheet for Kindergarten
- Spring lego challenge cards, Fruit Loop Color Matching Umbrella Craft, or I Spy Spring
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