Students can play an online interactive activity to learn about reading comprehension. Activities might include a guessing game where the students are given descriptive words and need to guess what the words are describing, such as "whiskers" or "soft" and then are given a few options such as cat or dog. The point of the exercise is comprehension of the words used to form the idea of what the item is.
Teachers can make use of this activity in kindergarten to encourage student reading. As the kindergartners read a book, they determine where the book took place and move a balloon to the location as set up in the classroom. This is a reading comprehension activity to help the students pay attention to items such as story location.
Among the skills kindergartners need for reading and remediation is rhyming words and vocabulary building. Teachers can give the students a word, such as "red," and then have the students come back with another word that rhymes, such as "bed." Throughout the activity the students substitute words that rhyme and gradually become aware of the phonetic sounds.
Students in kindergarten often sing songs in class. Teachers can use the songs to create phonetic awareness by having the students put word substitutions in the song. For example, if the students are singing "Old McDonald," they can change the ending to something that rhymes, but sounds different, such as "hee-high, hee-high, ho" instead of the traditional "ee-I ee-I Oh!"