Tips for reading in the club

Reading is a great tool for language learning. It can also be a great way to bring elements of your own culture in. It is important that the books you choose to read are inclusive and non-discriminatory. Keep in mind the Belingual inclusivity guidelines when selecting what books to read to your children. If you want to read books that are religious in nature, make sure you check that this is fine with all other parents.  
Sometimes you may not be able to find a book that suits the theme, or there simply isn’t any children literature in your language, if you find audio stories, use those, or make up a story yourself, or get a book in another language and translate it before the club.  
Reading to a group of children can be different than reading to your own child. Here are a few tips for reading to children in a group:  

1. Start by talking about the cover, this will help get the children excited. Read the title. Ask the older children to help reading the title. Ask the children what they think the title means. 
   1. Point out the characters.  
   2. Count objects.  
   3. Look for colors.  
   4. Look at the illustration on the cover of the book.  
   5. What is happening in the picture?  
2. You don’t have to read the book word for word, you can adapt the story as you go along so that it suits the age and language capacity of your group. Use the pictures to help you tell the story at a level that makes sense for the children in your group.  
3. Comment on the story while you are reading and ask questions about and comment on what has happened so far. 
   1. You can ask the children to guess what might happen next, before you turn the page.  
   2. You can also ask YES or NO questions if that is more appropriate to your group’s language capacity.  
   3. You can also ask children to come to the book and point to something. Where is the X?  Can you point to X?  I see a X…can you find it? 
4.  Change your voice for the characters and to express characters emotions, this will keep the story exciting, and children will learn about emotions at the same time.   
5. Make sure all the children can see every page, hold the book so that the pictures face out towards the group and move the book slowly from one side of the group to the other, so everyone has time to see.  Read the story to yourself a few times before reading it to the children so that you are familiar with it.  You can sit on a chair; this will make it easier for everyone to see the pages. 

Source: https://supersimple.com/article/5-simple-tips-for-reading-to-children/