Immerse your students in their favorite stories through food, suggests the website At Your Library. After reading a story that features food, prepare those foods for your students to sample. For example, after reading a book from the "Harry Potter" series, bring in traditional British foods for students to taste or create your own version of cauldron cakes or butterbeer for your class to enjoy. Choose multicultural books and introduce your students to foods from other countries. Involve students in the preparation of foods whenever possible.
Learn more about the stories you share with your students through author studies. Read other books by the same author, and visit the author's website, if applicable. Discover how the author's life shaped the stories he wrote. Ask your students to write letters to the author with questions about the book they read.
Help your students delve into the characters from their favorite stories through writing activities. Encourage students to write journal entries from the point of view of a specific character. Alternatively, ask students to write an alternate ending to a story, or tell what they think happened after the story ended.
Use stories you read to your students in the classroom as inspiration for their artwork. After reading a story, provide paint, crayons, markers and other art supplies and ask students to create a picture based on the story. Alternatively, plan more specific art activities for your students to complete. For example, after reading a story about dinosaurs, provide play dough and ask your students to create dinosaurs like those in the story.
Let your students take a turn as the teacher with student presentations based upon classroom reading. Ask students to take part in some role playing activities: For example, ask one student to act as a news reporter and interview other students acting as characters, suggests Weber State University. Alternatively, ask students to act out a scene from the story for the class.