Cut a large circle of butcher paper into wedge-shaped slices four, five, six, depending on your purpose. As students retell their parts, reassemble the pie. Tape the pie together and display it. Sometimes it's hard to tell if they can really read or not. Try having them read a page or a paragraph backward to check.
Kids really have to focus on the individual words.
This technique is especially good for those kids who often omit or insert words. And most kids think it's really funny to read backward because it makes no sense at all. Advice from a pro might help your students with revisions. Once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that seems unnecessary, and once to make the whole thing sound as if I have only just thought of it. Give students a spiral notebook, and ask them to write on only the pages on the right-hand side of the open notebook.