Choose a book that the children have not heard and allow them to read the story. Look at the cover and decide together what the title should be. Go fishing for letters. Tie a magnet to the string and you are ready for fishing. Encourage the children to identify the letters they catch.
Younger children can try to identify the color.
Write individual or group stories. Using the easel or a large piece of paper, start a story. Once upon a time there was a turtle who went to the library. . . When it's finished the children will enjoy having it read back to them. Set up a Post Office.