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      |    eslHQ Zealot   |    |    Join Date: Feb 24th, 2010  Location: Jinhua, China  Age: 40  
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        Re: reading       Making reading activities fun and interesting can sometimes be challenging.  However, you can make some fun activities out of it easily.   
In my reading classes I always follow these steps:   
Picture walk:  Guide your students to talk about the pictures. 
Guided reading:  Help your students to read the book/story together. 
On your own reading:  Students try to read the story by themselves.   
Throughout we will do some fun activities like....   
Acting out the story   
Drawing out the story in a way that's easier to understand.  Once finished I will have the students tell me the story in their own words.  I draw some fun and interesting pictures for them.   
I really recommend having your key sentences and words cut up into cards.  You can use cards for so many different game (assembling correct sentences, sentence creation relay races, and more).   
I wish you luck!   
Also you can find some interesting stories and readings for young kids on my site.  It includes printable books and short cartoons for the stories.          |