Playing reading games related to story or plot can help strengthen your students' comprehension and enthusiasm for reading. Several pages before you are finished reading a book to your class, stop and ask the class to predict the ending. Give time for students to come up with different ideas, then read the actual ending together and talk about how different endings might change what the book means. You can also do an impromptu role-playing activity, assigning a character to each class member and having them act out the story as you read it. They can repeat dialogue as well.
Some of the most basic reading and pre-reading games involve sound in the form of basic communication, music and rhymes. If you want to give your infant a head start on reading, simply read her age-appropriate books every day. Some books may not yet have words or letters on the page, just images. Allow her to touch and play with the book, and discuss each image with her, naming it clearly. For toddlers, have plenty of alphabet books, puzzles and blocks around. Identify letters and their sounds, and point out real-life and objects in books that begin with that letter. Your toddler may not identify them right away, but he's storing the information to help him do so.
Rhyming games help early readers identify similar sounds in different words through repetition. Read a nursery rhyme with your little one, then repeat the same rhyme and leave out the last word, for instance, "The itsy, bitsy spider went up the water spout. Down came the rain and washed the spider ____". Have your students fill in the last word. You can also give an example of a word with an "s" sound, such as "snake," and ask which other words the students know that start with the letter "s."
Kids learn well when given an activity to do with their hands. Have them create an alphabet picture book, with an object that starts with a certain letter for each page. You can also have students sculpt modeling clay into words, spell out words on sheets of paper with letter stamps along with magazine clippings that illustrate the word and walk around the school campus or classroom, asking kids to point out images they see that match words on a list you give them.