Make any kind of card deck you want with index cards and markers. Practice letter recognition, sight words (words that should be recognized on "sight" instead of sounded out) and vocabulary words by making your own Memory or Go Fish cards. Instead of the pictures normally used in these matching games, write letters that match. You can use the same letter or match upper case and lower case, sight words that match,or vocabulary words and their matching definitions. Then play Memory (lay out cards face down, take turns picking up two cards to look for a match) or Go Fish. Deal five cards to each player. On your turn, ask the other player for a match to one of your cards. If he or she doesn't have it, you "Go Fish" by picking up cards, one at a time, from the unused pile, until you have a match. Go on until the first person runs out of cards.
Create a comprehension board game with poster board, dice and markers. Draw a meandering path on the poster board with sections squared off as they are in Candy Land. Make a beginning and an ending section. Then write questions and directions in the squares. Some examples would be:
Who was the main character?
What was the conflict?
What was the setting?
What was the resolution?
What new word did you learn?
Lose a turn.
Skip two places ahead.
Who were the secondary characters?
Players roll the dice, move their player that many spaces and follow the directions or answer the question. If they cannot answer, they lose their next turn. The first one to the ending wins.
Kids could also make a board game of their own that has to do with a specific book that they've read. Then questions could be geared to that particular story and ask for more detail.
Use books to make reading games. Make a copy of a familiar book but do not staple it together. Mix up the order of the pages and have kids practice sequencing skills by putting them back in order. To make it more of a game, use two different books and see who can put theirs in order the quickest.
Review phonics skills and/or sight words by having a book word search. Instead of searching through a group of random letters to find a list of words, have your students search through a book to find a list of vowel combinations or sight words. You can choose familiar books to make it easier, or new books to make it more difficult. Give each kid a list and see who can find all of the items on their list first. Have them write the page number after they cross off a word so that you can easily check their hunt.