Over the years, research has established that involving students in thinking while engaging facilitates learning. Drawing on learning styles, this study aims to investigate the effectiveness of cloth book reading instruction compared to flashcard-based instruction and traditional reading instruction. The study specifically focuses on the aspects of vocabulary recognition, sentence comprehension and speaking performance. The participants were third-grade elementary school students from three homogeneous intact classes (N=31) randomly assigned to the control and experimental groups. The three groups received a forty-minute instruction once a week up to 20 weeks encompassing 6 units in total. The instruments included quantitative analyses of a proficiency pretest, six immediate reading and speaking comprehension tests, and an achievement posttest. To further probe the subjects’ perceptions of cloth book instruction, a questionnaire was administered to the subjects of the experimental group after the treatment. Results of the study showed that the experimental group performed significantly better than the control groups on reading comprehension and oral recount, indicating the intervention with cloth book active reading instruction effectively enhanced young EFL learners’ reading growth. Moreover, the subjects in the experimental group responded positively toward the cloth book usage in learning English.