Ideas from the Reading is Fundamental program

The Reading is Fundamental program has a nice website with ideas about reading with your child and how to get them interested in reading. Many of the ideas seem practical and helpful. This site focuses more on getting kids interested in reading than on specific ideas for skill activities.

Two links that are very helpful:

Simple Things Families Can Do to Help Their Child Become a Reader

20 Ways for Parents to Encourage Reading

Reading is Fundamental Website

Literacy Tips from PBSKids

The PBS website has some nice ideas for reading listed under the heading Literacy Tips for the 10-Minute Parent. We're all busy, and these might come in handy.

In addition to the general website link, be sure to check out this link that gives you ideas on how to discuss a book after your child has  read it:  How to get the most from any story after you've read to your kids.

Literacy Tips for the 10-Minute Parent

Book Adventure

This website is a free, commercial website that has some interesting activities and features. On the main page, they have a way to sign up for kids to take quizzes after they have read books. That may be ok (or too much like school), but they have some other ideas that look interesting.

Access one of the interesting features by clicking on the Kids Zone and selecting the "Book Finder". This takes you to the "Help Me Find a Book" page where Bailey Bookmark can help suggest books. Your child can indicate the reading level and the types of books in which they might be interested, and they will get a list of titles.

Book Adventure website

Tips for Helping Child Learn to Read

This site is from a Texas school district and has links to eleven different types of suggestions.
Among the best are:
Phrases that Encourage which are statements that you can use with your child as he or she reads aloud. Many of them focus on the way your child tries to figure out tricky words.
Questions for Reading which lists questions that can be used either before, during, and after reading to focus your child on the meaning of the story. Use just a few of these with a book rather than the whole list.
Breaking the Sound-It-Out Barrier gives suggestions about what to say to help your child figure out an unknown word instead of just "sound it out".

Family Literacy Project site