1. Delete every tenth or fifteenth word in a paragraph
 and have the students fill in the missing words.

 2. Begin a story and have the students complete it.

 3. Give the students a list of book titles and ask
 them to classify them as fiction and nonfiction.

 4. Have the students make up sub-heads for a nonfiction
 selection.

 5. Give the students questions and ask them to skim to
 find the answers. Set very short time limits.

 6. Have the students read the first and last paragraphs
 of an article and tell what they think it's about.

 7. Have the students keep a record of the timed reading
 exercise you give weekly.

 8. Have the students turn sub-heads into questions and
 read to answer the question.

 9. Give the students a problem and ask them to skim to
 find only the answer to the problem.

10. Have the students use the index of a book to find
 answers to questions.

11. Make available different types of graphs and teach the
 students how to read them.

12. Have the students habitually look up the copyright
 dates of the books they read. Stimulate the students
 to discuss the dating of information.

13. Make up two different accounts of the same event and
 have the students discuss the differences between the
 accounts.

14. Have the students outline a selection by devising sub-
 heads.

15. Have the students make up different endings for the
 same story.

16. Pass out some cartoons and ask the students to write
 captions for them.

17. Ask the students how they think a character in a story
 might feel about something.


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