Children learn from modeling.

• Read aloud to your students for at least 15 minutes daily.
• For emerging readers, read large charts and books while pointing to the words.
• For nonfluent readers, read a short passage aloud a few times while the children follow along in their books.
• Provide books on CD or online that allow students to listen and follow along.

Allow students to bring out their natural interest in reading.

• Have a variety of people read to students.
• Provide a wide range of reading materials.
• Form book clubs that meet regularly.
• Encourage students to discuss their favorite books, characters, and events.

Make learning to read fun.

• Set up cozy reading areas with rugs and pillows.
• Provide time for students to read with friends.
• Give students opportunities to practice passage before reading in a group.
• Allow students to choose how they will demonstrate what they've read—by discussion, drawing, or pantomime, for example.

Good readers spend time practicing.

• Be sure that children take books home to read.
• Set aside specific, uninterrupted reading periods during the school day.
• Sponsor book exchanges that allow children to trade books.

Challenge students with high-level reading materials that stretch their abilities without being discouraging students.

• Read aloud challenging materials and thought-provoking questions—questions that focus on predicting or interpreting the behavior of characters in a story, for example.
• Provide real situations that challenge children's thinking, such as having a toy sale or planning a trip.
• Model high-level thinking by showing students how to think out loud about questions relating to something that they've read.
• Have students design their own high-level questions to ask other students.