Partnerships and Book Clubs

Partnerships and Book Clubs:

Students are given many opportunities to discuss, debate and reflect upon text with their peers. During reading partnerships and book clubs, students learn how to be active listeners, articulate their thoughts and provide encouragement and support.  Partnerships and clubs lift the level of student text comprehension while also helping learners gain perspective about others and the world.  Partner and club reading increase motivation and provide social opportunities to delve deeper into their thinking. 

“Book clubs and partnerships play a crucial role in supporting student comprehension and also in making the reading process a social one (Nichols, 2006). When kids talk well about books, the conversations can be invigorating, engaging,and enlightening. When they don’t go well, kids get bored and off task and time is wasted. What most kids often need is instruction in how to talk well, period, and also how to talk well about books.”

—Jennifer Serravallo, The Reading Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Readers (324, Heinemann, 2015).