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In this strategy, students read aloud to each other, pairing more fluent readers with less fluent readers.  Children who read at the same level may be paired to reread a text that they have already read, for continued understanding and fluency work.  In order to increase student fluency, readers need experience reading to and listening to other readers of all kinds.  Specifically, lower-level readers benefit from strategies such as Paired Reading by listening to the reading of a higher-level reader.  Reading with someone else encourages students to try reading material that may be above their usual reading level, while also building oral skills so that students are more comfortable with their reading.

Phonemic awareness is the ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds in words. We know that a student’s skill in phonemic awareness is a good predictor of later reading success or difficulty.  We have continued our study of phonemic awareness through the exploration of word families.  Our first word family of focus was the -at family.  After becoming familiar with our at family reader, the students enjoyed buddy reading throughout the classroom.  Reading and rereading text allows students to become more proficient in fluency and and have more practice with the reading strategies they have learned so far!