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Reading Partnerships
Strategies for helping students engage in meaningful reading partnerships by composing open-ended questions and meeting regularly to discuss a common text.
By Beth Newingham
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/reading-partnerships
All readers will be given strategies to help them compose open-ended questions and will then meet regularly to discuss a common text that they have chosen to read. Reading partners each have their own copy of the agreed upon chapter book, and they set-up times to meet and discuss the text throughout their reading of the book.
When finished with a text, reading partners will work together to complete a reading project and share their common reading experience with their classmates.
ObjectiveStudents will:
Reproducibles
Reading Survey
Reading Partnership Planning Sheet
Reading Partnership Bookmarks
Reading Partnership Questioning Form
Sample Thick and Thin Questions
How to Advertise a Good Book
Strategies for helping students engage in meaningful reading partnerships by composing open-ended questions and meeting regularly to discuss a common text.
By Beth Newingham
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/reading-partnerships
All readers will be given strategies to help them compose open-ended questions and will then meet regularly to discuss a common text that they have chosen to read. Reading partners each have their own copy of the agreed upon chapter book, and they set-up times to meet and discuss the text throughout their reading of the book.
When finished with a text, reading partners will work together to complete a reading project and share their common reading experience with their classmates.
ObjectiveStudents will:
- Reflect on their reading interests and strength
- Choose a "just right" book to read with a partner
- Plan and organize reading meetings with a partner in the class
- Review story elements by retelling the stories they are reading
- .Make text-to-self and text-to-text connections as they read
- Compose "thick" questions about a text that encourage higher-level thinking
- Discuss and evaluate literature with a partner
- Make predictions about what they are reading based on evidence from the text
- Plan and present a book project to their classmates
Reproducibles
Reading Survey
Reading Partnership Planning Sheet
Reading Partnership Bookmarks
Reading Partnership Questioning Form
Sample Thick and Thin Questions
How to Advertise a Good Book
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