Fill in the Blank Activities for Children

Simple word games can help enhance your child̵7;s reading, writing and letter comprehension skills. Fill-in-the-blank questions require your child to recall answers from his memory bank -- with a little help from some letter, word or sentence fragments -- and either write or say the correct answer based on those contextual clues. These activities are a simple and economical way to help supplement your child̵7;s formal education.

  1. Alphabet Fill in the Blank

    • Some children recognize the upper-case letters of the alphabet easily, but struggle with the lower-case letters. To help your child learn both forms of each letter, create an alphabet letter fill-in-the-blank activity. Pull out a chalkboard and write a letter, either upper or lower case. Your child should write the opposite case of the same letter next to it. If you write ̶0;K,̶1; he should write ̶0;k.̶1; He should write ̶0;M̶1; if you provided an ̶0;m.̶1; This works best for young children just learning to write their letters.

    Book Activities

    • To enhance reading comprehension and retention, you can implement some fill in the blank activities while you read books with your child. You can finish a page in the book and ask your child an open-ended prediction or review question about the story, such as ̶0;Where do you think Arthur is going to go next?̶1; or ̶0;What was the name of her cat?̶1; If your child is older, you can create a fill-in-the-blank worksheet for him to complete once he is done with a book. The questions should touch on the main points and characters of the story. For instance, you could provide questions such as, ̶0; won the medal for first prize̶1; or ̶0;Billy was searching for so he could defeat Professor Badguy.̶1;

    Spelling Activities

    • You can use fill-in-the-blank activities to help strengthen your child̵7;s spelling skills. Grab your child̵7;s spelling list from school and create your own activity by rewriting the list, but omitting a letter or two from each word. For example, "cat," "storm," "party" and "could" can be" c_t," "s_orm," "_arty" and" c_u_d." This is meant to be an addition to his spelling test studying, not a replacement.

    Flannel Board Activity

    • Help your child reinforce his understanding of sentence structure with a fill-in-the-blank flannel-board activity. Create several word cards by writing different nouns, verbs and adjectives on some note cards, such as "run," "green" and "cake." Write only one word per card and make all the words different. Also make up some basic fill in the blank sentences on some note cards, such as ̶0;Sam will in the race,̶1; ̶0;Lettuce is a color̶1; or ̶0;Lily loves chocolate ___.̶1; Grab a sentence card and place it on the flannel board. Pull out some word note cards for your child to choose from. One should be the correct answer to the fill in the blank, while the other choices shouldn̵7;t make sense if they were placed in the blank. Once your child chooses the correct answer, try a different sentence.

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