Enjoy reading as many jokes and riddles as you can in 30 minutes. Write down two or three favorites to tell your classmates and teacher.
Extra for Fun: Write a joke or riddle of your own.
Read as many tall tales as you can in 30 minutes. After you have read several, answer the following questions:
- What makes a tall tale a tall tale?
- What are tall tale characters like?
- What do tall tales explain?
- How are the plots similar in tall tales?
Extra for Fun: Write a tall tale. You may want to use your tall tale to explain something we are studying in class.
Enjoy reading both old and modern fables. After you have read several, choose two and complete a Venn diagram to show how they are alike and different.
Extra for Fun: Write your own fable with a moral or lesson at the end.
Read several magazine articles that you find interesting. Write a short summary of one article to share with the class or your reading group.
Enjoy the fun and mystery of pop-up books for 30 minutes. Then write a summary of one of the books, telling what you have learned.
Extra for Fun: Create your own pop-up card to give to a friend.
Have fun reading alliteration and tongue twisters. Try saying several of them softly, over and over again, to see how well you manage the tricky patterns. Write down a few of your favorites.
Extra for Fun: Create your own alliterative sentence. Create your own tongue twister. Can you say it several times quickly?
ABC Books are not just for young children. Authors have written interesting ABC books about many topics, from plants and animals to Native Americans and transportation. Enjoy reading at least two ABC books. Write down six facts you learned from your reading.
Extra for Fun: Create an ABC book about something you are studying or something of special interest to you. When you’re finished, you can share your book with the class.
Study the pictures in the books for 30 minutes. Then choose two pages and list everything you see in those pictures.
Extra for Fun: Create your own hidden pictures and challenge a friend to find them.
Read two different books on the same theme and make a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting them.
Read a variety of poems for fun. Choose several that you like a lot and then pick your absolute favorite to share with the class. Think about topics that seem popular with the poets and try writing a poem on your own.
Extra for Fun: Memorize a poem and recite it for the class.
Tell four or more things in the book that seemed mysterious to you. Explain any scary or most confusing parts of the book.
For Extra Fun: Make your own mystery using words, pictures, or comic strip.
Name 10 important facts that you learned about the information you read in the science book. Write 5 opinions that you read.
For Extra Fun: Make a stepbook or flapbook using the facts you just learned. Make a Fact VS Opinion booklet based on the information you read.