Try these literacy activities with your advanced reader:
- Keep a book log or reading journal. Have your child draw pictures of what they read and describe or summarize them.
- Go to the library and borrow books that are fiction and non-fiction. Reading from both genres is a great way to grow as a reader.
- Take a piece of paper and fold it in thirds. Have your child summarize their book by writing the beginning, middle, and end of the story in each section. Illustrate afterwards.
- Pretend you are a character in the story. Write a pen pal letter to another character in the story.
- Find 5 words from your story that were new to you. Write them down, look up their meanings, and then try to use them in a sentence.
- Using index cards, retell the story using only pictures. Retell the story to a parent, friend, sibling, etc.
- Pretend you are a talk show host and you are interviewing a character from the book. Write down questions you would ask and the answers the character would probably give.
- What books are you reading this month? Scroll down to see what is on our bookshelf.
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I Spy
Dynamite Detective
On our Super Sleuth Bookshelf this month:
- The Lemonade War
- Fudge-A-Mania
- Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
- Charlotte’s Web
- Magic Tree House books
- The Boxcar Children
- Sarah, Plain and Tall
- Amelia Bedelia
- Ivy and Bean series
- Judy Moody
- Stink
- The Bad Guys
- Frindl
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