Daily reading calendar

Try asking these questions and doing these activities when you’re reading together!

Choose 3 new words and find their meaning. Draw a picture or write a sentence.

How would you feel if you were in the story?

Stop every few pages and predict what will happen next. Why?

Choose a character: How did they change through the story?

Try a new genre: read a math story or a science text.

What would happen to the characters after this story ends?

Think of 5 words to describe your favorite character.

Tell someone about the main events of your story.

What was your favorite fact from the book? Why?

Think about a problem in the story. How would you solve it?

What are 5 new things you learned about your topic?

Choose 5 words: what do they remind you of? Have you heard them before?

Before you read: what do you think this book will be about?

How would the story be different if ...? How might characters react?

Why do you think the author wrote this book?

What do you have in common with a character? What is different?

Choose 5 tricky words: Name some similar or opposite words.

What does this topic remind you of? What else do you want to learn about it?

Choose 5 words and act them out. Have someone guess the words!

Try a new genre: read a biography or learn about a new place in the world.

Imagine a new ending to the story. Tell a family member.

If you could be one character, who would you be and why?

Think of 3 interview questions for a character. How would they answer?

Try a new genre: read a poem, fairy tale or folk tale.

How would this story be different if it was set in the past or the future?

Choose 3 new words and find their meaning. Now, teach them to someone else!

Pick one event: What could the characters think or feel about this?

Does anything in this book seem familiar to you? Can you make a connection?

Was there a lesson you learned from reading this book?

Read a book to learn about a new topic.