Grade 7s Love to Read Out Loud!

I can see the value of reading buddies. My grade 7 class jumped at the chance to read some of the new picture books. When I had one of the boys read a book to me, I told him I would pretend to be the little kid, and he should read to me. What a great experience.

Then, for the rest of the class, the students took turns reading to me, the "little kid" and I would tell them if they're qualified to be a reading buddy.

The amount of expression and interest each one put forward was surprizing. The next step was to have them practice on each other to be good reading buddies.

This is definitely something I want to set up.