partner reading on the iPad -with the Storia app

As readers, the Butterflies grow and develop through daily independent reading and partner reading.  

The First Grade Butterflies have learned how to "read with" a partner using "I Read You Read" (alternating pages), "Copycat" (rereading each page), and "Jinx" (reading simultaneously).  The Butterflies have learned how to "talk with" a partner before, during, and after reading by making predictions, making connections, asking questions, checking for understanding, retelling, and reflecting on the reading.

The Butterfly readers have learned the importance of "reading with" a partner, to support decoding and fluency, and "talking with" a partner before, during, and after the reading, to support comprehension.

The Butterflies learned how to access the books available in the Storia iPad app to "read with" and "talk with" a reading partner.

Available books are organized on bookshelves.  Bookshelves are titled using the language of the organization of developmental reading levels in our classroom library (for leveled texts) and/or titled using the language of the organization of books in our classroom library.  The titles of the bookshelves support the Butterflies identification of "just right" books for independent and/or partner reading.

The Butterflies used their understanding of the organization of our classroom library to identify "just right" books for partner reading and to cooperatively choose a book(s) to "read with" and "talk with" their reading partner.

The Butterflies were excited to read books on the iPad and actively engaged with their reading partner in "reading with" and "talking with" one another as readers! 

Butterfly Reading Partners reading a Fly Guy book on the iPad

a Butterfly referencing a part of the text
to explain his thinking to his reading partner

Butterfly Readers partner reading on the iPad