Jee Young and I have offered many blog posts about reading buddies during our first year of blogging. It just made sense seeing how our two classes used to hang out once a week when we worked at the same school, we loved reading buddies!
Tips for Successful Reading Buddies
Reading Buddy Activity for Poetry
End of the Year Book Buddy Activity
This year I am coordinating the reading buddy activities for the whole elementary school, since our school is small we all have reading buddies at the same time— and with each other! As I am trying to find reading activities that fit ages ranging from kindergarten to fourth grade I am realizing more and more that reading buddies are so much more than just reading together. My younger students look forward to it every week, a chance to hang out (in a class like setting) with the older students, who wouldn’t want that?
This year we have been able to not only read together, but they’ve been able to do art projects together, they have played games together, they co-authored a math story book, they have colored, they have laughed, they have learned how to communicate with people outside their age group.
I readily admit though, that watching these students read to each other and with each other, and ask each other questions— that is my absolute favorite part of reading buddies!
I just typed in “reading buddies” into pinterest to check out how many boards there are, I am about to have a field day! I love that new things are always popping up there.
What are some great activities you do with reading buddies?
two apples a day 