Buddy Reading

Last week Room 1 and Room 4 got together to do some buddy reading. Room 4 bought their reading books with them and we found a place to sit in the pod. Our little buddies did some reading to us first. Then we went to their classroom and chose a picture book to read to them. They found the books really interesting. We were excited to work with a buddy from Room 4 because we haven't worked with them very much this year. Our buddies tried so hard to work out words they didn't know. Our buddies really looked up to us and listened carefully when we were trying to help them. It was challenging getting our buddies to sound out some words correctly especially when they really didn't know the word. Next time we think we might bring one of our own books and read to them to show our good reading strategies. We did some thinking about our own thinking while were buddy reading and thought about what questions I might ask next to make sure they know what the story was about.