Select an author and feature him on your door through a variety of decorations. Create a poster with his picture and use large block letters to write his name on the door. Feature photographs of his books or images from the book's illustrations. For older elementary children, include basic facts about the author so that students who walk by your classroom have the opportunity to learn about your room's featured author.
Decorate your door to look like the outside cover of the book you are studying in your classroom. Cover the entire door using plain butcher paper and then use construction paper or other craft materials to mimic the details of your selected book. Use die-cut letters or images to make your book-cover door decoration easy to change out. Enlist the help of your students to decorate the door with a new cover each time you begin the study of a new piece of literature in your classroom. This activity helps excite students about the book they will soon read.
Enlist the help of your class to decorate your door with a literacy collage. Provide students with a variety of old magazines and ask them to find examples of literacy throughout the pages. They might select a photo of a child reading, a word such as "read," or any other image or text that fits the theme. Also allow students to use photographs of one another completing literacy activities within your classroom. Combine the words and images and place them on the outside of your door. To make the door decoration easy to remove, cover the door with a plain piece of butcher paper prior to gluing images to the door.
Use your classroom door decorations to promote literacy concepts as students walk by and enter your classroom. Select any literacy activity that is developmentally appropriate for your classroom students and feature this on your door. You might include vocabulary words and their definitions for students to read as they wait outside your door. Another option is to have students match a prefix to a word to make a new word. Create this activity using Velcro and sentence strips.