Read to someone is a station where students read to each other. As they read, they work on building fluency and practicing reading strategies. Partners are also able to help each other with difficult words. When a student comes to a word that they do not know, the partner might ask "Coaching or time?" With this strategy, students may just need a little more time with the word to figure it out on their own or they can ask for help from their partner. Our reading teachers teach us strategies to coach our partners. When students participate in Read to Someone, they have more confidence in reading in front of people. In this station students work with partners that have similar Lexile levels and they choose what they will read together. Students also learn to compromise by playing rock, paper, scissors if they can't decide whose book to read, or they make a deal to read one partners' book one day and the other partners' book the next time. This station is also a place where students can talk about what they read. Students are required to ask each other high level questions about they are reading to check for understanding.
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