PARTNER READING Partner reading offers the opportunity for students to practice working together in pairs. This technique can be applied around midyear for PreK students who are learning about sharing and communicating with classmates. Older students can choral-read (reading simultaneously), echo- read (taking turns reading the same paragraph, page, or whole book), or alternate-read (taking turns reading alternate paragraphs or pages).
• Gather pairs of books and put students into groups of two. Have students look through their books together and help them talk about the themes. Encourage students to learn something new about their reading partners. • Play interview. One partner gets to pretend to be a character from the story; the other partner gets to interview him or her about his or her thoughts, feelings, and actions. Then they switch! • Opinion share. Students can share how they feel about a character with one another using evidence from the text and inference to support their points of view. • PreK and Kindergarten: Toward the middle of the school year, PreK students may be ready to work with a partner. Those PreK students and Kindergartners can meet in pairs to point out moments from the book when a character made a good decision or was able to solve a problem. INDIVIDUAL READING Individual reading offers students an opportunity to think about and internalize life skills. • While reading, write questions on sticky notes about a character’s actions and decisions. • Write a diary entry from the perspective of a character. • Examine a relationship between two or more characters. How did it grow, evolve, and change? • Write about a similar situation that has happened to you, or imagine you were in the story. Did you feel the same way as the character? Did you choose the same actions? Why or why not?
• Confer with students one on one. Ask students to share what skills they admire about the protagonist in the book they are reading. Ask students: What does this book make you think about? • PreK: Invite students to tell about the book and point out favorite characters or events. • Kindergarten: Draw a picture of a character from the book solving a problem or helping another character.
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