• When a child (or group of children) first arrive at your station, engage in small greeting and chit chat. Encourage them to sit down next to you so that all can see the book’s pages. Partner reading looks like shared reading, so all should be able to see the book with everyone sitting side by side.

• Show the children your books and ask them to choose a book to read together. Next, ask the child if they think the book is on their reading level and rather they would like to partner read or have you read most of the story to them. Let the child choose. No matter what they decide, be sure to stop along the way and to discuss the pictures and the story together.  

• Partner Reading is essentially taking turns to read short and engaging texts; stopping occasionally to discuss the pictures and story.

• Familiarize yourself with the books at your station ahead of time. Take time ahead to decide on appropriate times within the story to stop and ask comprehension questions to your partner. These might sound like. “what did you think about the ….?” or, “Hey, has that ever happened to you?” These questions should sound like natural communication; not test questions to the child.

• If the child is not able to answer your questions or seems hesitant, say something like “. Wow, that’s tricky. Let’s go back to the story and see if we can find that answer together”.  

• Continue taking turns reading the story and looking at the pictures. When the book is finished, ask them some basic follow up questions. Examples could include, “Did you like this book? And what was your favorite part” or “would you recommend this book to a friend?”.  

• Give them their sticker and send them to the next station.