How could the story be improved? After your class has finished reading a book, have them come up with ideas for what a sequel would be like. They can choose a title and draw book covers and write up a short summary. This activity is a perfect candidate to turn into a classbook! You can easily use our free publishing kits to help your students design a whole catalog of sequel stories!
This classbook will absolutely be a fun collectible for students and parents to keep as a memento from second grade! It could even be an artifact from an alternate timeline where these sequels were published and added to the literary canon! Have your students draw a map of the setting from a book they are reading or the setting from their favorite book.
Students should write down the alphabet on a large piece of paper, leaving plenty of room between each letter. Next, students choose a word for each letter, write the word and draw something to represent it.
The main points are comprehension and vocabulary, so make sure your students can explain what each word means. Give special recognition to any students who come up with a word that no one else did! Divide your class into three or four groups. Each group is assigned a character from a story your class recently read. The groups get a stack of sticky notes and a wall to put them on.
Have them write something about the character on each sticky note—a description, a character trait, something they did in the story, etc—and then put the notes on the wall, categorizing them in whatever way makes the most sense to them. Each student is given a long piece of paper to design their own bookmark. This can be based on a specific book, genre or author they love. Get a beach ball and write a question on each section with permanent marker. Have students stand in a circle and play some music.
Roll or throw the ball into the circle and have students roll or throw the ball to each other until the music stops. When the music stops, the last student to catch the ball has to answer whatever question their thumb is touching.
Then start the music back up and repeat! For an extra challenge, require all sentences to start with the same letter for example, the dolphin story would have sentences that all start with the letter D , or require that the next sentence has to start with the letter that comes after the last letter in the previous sentence.
Many reading activities and projects can easily be turned into a themed classbook for your students to have a collaborative resource to refer back to during the year—and to hang onto as a keepsake once the year is over! Just pick an activity—or several! In addition, you can also refer to our blog for teaching strategies, writing activities, and writing prompts for your young students. We provide teachers and schools with a FREE hands-on writing activity that motivates students to write and inspires students to learn by turning their stories into professionally bound books.
Learn More. Scavenger Hunt This activity teaches children how important reading is without the activity being focused specifically on reading. Story Puzzle Pick a common story, like a fairy tale, that the whole class is familiar with. Word Search Have students create their own word searches by filling out graph paper with their class vocabulary words and then filling it in with random letters.
Vocabulary Story Write down vocabulary words on strips of paper and put them in a hat. Favorite Author Help students look up their favorite authors online.
Creative Reading Spaces When students are having a designated reading period, encourage them to sit on the floor or against a wall or take them to another area in the building, like the library. See It. Making Connections When Reading. What is a Picture Walk? Keep it Light Conversations about books should be fun. Use the Five Finger Strategy After reading a story, use your hand to help you remember the most important elements of the story.
Characters — Who was in the story? Setting — Where did the story take place? Events — What happened in the story? End — How did the story end? Your Take — What was your favorite part? Who — Who are the characters or people? What — What happened? Where — Where did it take place? When — When did it happen? Why — Why did the story end the way it did? Process It When reading with your child, a great technique is to pause after a few pages and check in to see if your child is truly grasping what they are reading.
Show Me As your young reader matures, they can demonstrate their understanding in more sophisticated ways. Different Ways to Read Books are the best way to expose children to new vocabulary, stories and higher-level thinking skills.
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