Powerful Partnerships - EEKK!!!

This week during Reading Workshop, we started our new unit, "Powerful Partnerships".  Now that we have learned how to take care of books and read independently, we are ready to learn how to read with a partner.  We sit with our partner in two different ways, depending upon the type of reading that we are doing.  We start out by reading Back-to-Back, so that each partner can read independently.  Later we move into our EEKK! position.  EEKK! stands for "Elbow to Elbow, Knee to Knee".  
  

This position helps us to talk about and share books with our partner.  This week we practiced our different positions and learned about the first way to read with a partner: Read Together.  

When we read together, both partners have their own copy of the same book.  They both read the book together at the same time, making sure to work together to stay at the same pace.  The small copies of our class Big Books, the books we have made in class during our Word Work, and the ABC Book are all great books to help us practice the Read Together method of reading with a partner.  Next week we will be learning about two more ways: Take Turns and I Read, You Read.