All children will develop reading skills at different ages through different ways, and the most important thing you can do is use your classroom promote a love of reading. Read often to your class, and use reading as a reward. Perhaps if a child is behaving well, he can pick the book that is read to the class after recess. Take children on a field trip to the local library and encourage parents to sign children up for their own library card.
Make sure your students understand what print is and that it is organized in a certain way: left to right and top to bottom. Use reading aloud to help reinforce this idea. Before reading a book aloud to the students, hold up the cover and discuss it. Point to the title of the book and ask what the students think the book is about. Read and point to the names of the author and illustrator. Pick a few vocabulary words from the story, and have students try to guess what these words mean using the context of the story. Emphasize the left to write progression by pointing to the words as you read.
Help your class understand that each word is made up of sounds from the alphabet. Make a list of rhyming words, and then a second list of these words with the middle sound changed. For example, your first list might have the word "bat," and your second list would then have the word "bit." Choose students to represent each sound, and give them a card with the letter on it. Have these students stand in the front of the classroom with the cards facing out, and help them to assemble in the correct order to form a word from the first list. Show them how the middle sound can be switched out to form a new word.
Guided oral reading helps improve reading fluency. Read a short passage aloud to a student. Have her reread the passage several times to herself, and then aloud to the class. Students can practice this exercise at home with a parent or in the classroom by using an audio tape or reading with a peer. Performing a script is also a entertaining way to encourage reading fluency. The studying and rereading of lines for a performance is an effective way to develop fluency skills.