While reading with students, stop occasionally and ask what they think is going to happen next in the story. This activity aids in developing comprehension and helping young students to become critical readers.
You can reinforce reasoning and phonetic skills by playing guess the letter. Play the game with students by describing the letter and asking the children to guess the letter that you are attempting to describe. For example, you can describe the letter C by saying, "this letter is made up of a curve and starts the word cat"
This activity involves giving a script to the students as well as assigning each child with a part to play. The students practice by reading out loud in the class while focusing on fluency and elocution. The students then perform the play for other classes as well as parents. The reader's theater activity is an effective way of practicing fluency and cultivating the basic understanding of a story.
Art can bring a story to life. Read a story with students in class and then engage in a discussion about the characters and storyline. You can then make one of the classroom announcement boards into a story board for students. You can do this by covering the board using white paper and marking off eight to 10 panels with boundaries. Then allow the students to print ideas or sentences taken out of the story onto the board. Place the students into pairs and give them the opportunity to illustrate the story block by block. Once all the blocks are complete, your students will have generated a comic strip telling the same story, and this will give the students the chance to study character development, sequencing and the plot of a story.
Dr. Seuss was an American writer and cartoonist most famous for writing children's books. The National Education Association provides a program known as Read Across America, which allows children to take part in a reading contest before Dr Seuss' birthday on March 2nd. The team or person who reads the most books by that date is awarded a prize.