CCP: Episode 20 // Getting Started With Reading Partnerships in the Classroom
Let’s take buddy reading to the next level.
In this episode, you'll learn how to build a stronger classroom community through establishing reading partnerships with your students. Reading partnerships go well beyond traditional buddy reading, and can be used to cultivate meaningful conversations between students. You'll learn action steps for how to prepare and set up reading partnerships in your classroom, as well as tips for helping students engage in deep and meaningful connections about the texts that they read together.
Highlights from the Episode
Why buddy reading might not always be the right choice for students (1:42)
Why we use buddy reading in the classroom (2:21)
The difference between buddy reading and reading partnerships (2:58)
What is a reading partnership? (4:37)
Preparing your classroom for reading partnerships (6:29)
Preparing your students for reading partnerships (8:07)
The initial reading partnership meeting and beyond (10:20)
Arranging times for your reading partnership groups to meet (11:40)
Providing book talk guidelines for student discussion during student reading partnership meetings (12:19)
Strategies to help your students develop strong book discussion skills (13:06)
Model the retelling formula
Model how to discuss their favorite parts
Model accountable talk
Asking thick questions vs. thin questions
Project ideas for wrapping up reading partnerships (18:40)
Design a book advertisement poster
Create a setting map
Illustrate a comic strip of the main events
Create a picture collage with pictures from magazines that represent the book
Create a reader’s theater script for the critical event of the story, or have a script that rewrites an alternative ending for the book
Create a word cloud representing the characters and events of the book
Choose activities from a choice board
Resources & Links Mentioned in the Episode:
PODCAST: Episode 1: Creating a Community of Readers
POST: Teaching Students to Use Accountable Talk in Your Classroom
POST: Creating a Diverse & Inclusive Classroom Library Collection
RESOURCE: Nonfiction and Fiction Choice Boards
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