Choose the best stories and essays and publish them in the school newspaper or create a bulletin board display or classroom literary magazine that uses the children's writing. Here's a way for students to use different media to publicize books they've read. Ask students to stage a show along the lines of a movie critic's program in which they discuss how they felt about various books. Ask them to write reviews and publish them in the school newspaper or a student literary review journal. If this is done toward the end of the school year, ask them to create their top 10 lists for summer reading.
Students can read groups of books with a common thread.
Create events that center around specific authors, historical periods or figures, genres, or holidays. For example, have students read books about Martin Luther King, Jr., including fiction treatments about the civil rights movement. Have children act out their favorite scenes from books or stage readings of their favorite poems. Ask students to use dialogue directly from the books or have them write their own. Suggest that female students portray male characters, young people play older people, and ask the children to discuss how they think their characters would act.