This chapter emphasizes:
"Reading with someone helps readers, especially developing readers, become more self-sufficient and less reliant on the teacher for assistance. Research shows that taking turns while reading increases reading involvement, attention, and collaboration." (The Daily 5™ p. 60)
Why read to others? How will it help? What does it accomplish? How does it work?
Reading to others helps reinforce phrasing, fluency, word recognition, and even build character ed...after all, we have to get along long enough to read with each other don't we?
As in the other chapters, The Sisters outline the 'HOW' as well as the 'WHAT'. So, here is the 'what'!
**Have students sit (Elbow, Elbow, Knee, Knee) so that both partners can read the book. This is better known as EEKK. There are lots of posters out about this. All you have to do is go to google or Teachers Pay Teachers and you will find them made with lots of different themes.
**Using low voices so other students are not disturbed. Lots of teachers use whisper phones to encourage this. Some teachers also teach that students must use a 6 inch voice.
**Ways to read in the partnership <Read the same book, read 2 different books> There is a wonderful website which gives lots of ideas about implementation and provides great websites for this.
**Checking each other for understanding. It is important to pay attention to get the best understanding of what is being read.
**Giving each other time or coaching. It is important to teacher partners not to 'give' a word, but to prompt their partner with strategies that can help break the code of the word down.
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