Some ideas

• Write answers to simple comprehension questions.

 

• Ask a partner simple questions to go with the book.

 

• Read the book again for pleasure or read to a friend or a soft toy.

 

• Write down 3 fascinating facts you learned from a non-fiction book.

 

• Re-tell the story to partner/teacher/class.

 

• Write/discuss alternative ending for text.

 

• Simple pictorial Book Reviews.

 

• Add new vocabulary to Reading & Writing Wall.

 

• Read, write & draw 6 words from book. (write before drawing)

 

• Find words from their book with 2/3/4/5 letters and record them.

 

• Reading scheme games or CD Roms.

 

• Read onto a tape.

 

• Choose a favourite sentence to read, write and draw.

 

• Find the title, author and illustrator of the book.

 

• Find a rhyming word in the book that matches words given by the teacher.

 

• Using wordless books, write some text for each page to tell the story.

 

• Using a wordless book, add speech bubble post its.

 

• Use a newspaper to highlight or cut out words from the book.

 

• Design a new cover and title for book. (only when book is completed. Take book away)

 

• Dictionary work, e.g. highlight 3 tricky words for a partner to find and clarify.

 

• Find 10 words beginning with ‘A’ /’sh’ from the book, write onto a whiteboard.

 

• Find a word in the book for each letter of the alphabet [or known sounds]

 

• Find words containing sh/ch/ee/oo etc.

 

• Grammar work –Put in capital letters or full stops from a piece of text. (could use Textease)

 

• Grammar Hunt – read and find nouns, verbs, adjectives etc. (could use Textease)

 

• Highlight capital letters/full stops/exclamation marks/question marks/speech marks etc from a piece of text (could use Textease)

 

• Find all the words in the book with a capital letter and copy them on a whiteboard.

 

• Choose 6 words from the book to practise spelling with a partner, using whiteboards.

 

• Lotto/word bingo games to reinforce vocabulary.

 

• Play snap/pairs using key words from book.

 

• Play snap/pairs to match vocabulary to pictures.

 

• Draw a character/setting from the description in the text. (add key words?)

 

  Follow Up Tasks for Reading 

 

• Write about what a character might be thinking or feeling, using speech bubbles.

 

• Highlight 5 adjectives and give alternatives. (could use Textease)

 

• Look in text for alternatives for said, small, big, happy, sad etc and add to the Reading & Writing Wall.

 

• Make a poster for an event in the text e.g. a party.

 

• Research topic/author/illustrator on Internet. (with support)

 

• Cloze procedure.

 

• Write a simple blurb (synopsis) from the back cover in your own words.

 

• Make a cartoon strip showing the sequence of events in a part/whole book.

 

• Sentence reconstruction.  Copy text and cut up.  Ask a partner to reconstruct the sentence correctly.

 

• Read and discuss another text by the same author.

 

• Act out an event as a drama using puppets.

 

• Write about a favourite character.

 

• Draw an alternative illustration for a page.

 

• Identify and record words with the same letter patterns/beginnings/endings.

 

• Choose a piece of environmental print from the book and make a large copy to display.

 

• Find smaller words within words, with a partner.

 

• Look for and record compound words, with a partner.

 

• Make a zig-zag book of the story.

 

• ‘Draw the Face’ sheets for main characters.
• Character/word jigsaws.

 

• Listen to stories on tape.

 

• Play simple reading games created by the teacher example in booklet (To be enlarged)