Partner Reading- Narrative Text

 Here is a video of two students reading through a narrative text.  First they do a picture walk where they discuss predictions, what they see in the pictures, and also any general/background knowledge they may have to add.   This is also a chance for students to learn active listening.  Each person gets to be an active speaker and then an active listener.  The active listener needs to revoice what the speaker just said.  They may also agree or disagree.   Then the students read the text and further discuss to see if the text matches what they had thought in the picture walk.  Students discuss characters, setting, problem, solution, text type, and central message at this point.  I develop the mini lessons using the common core standards for reading literature and speaking and listening.  The mini lesson on this day was to practice being an active listener.  I trained the kids with accountable talk frames available at my TPT store:  http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Accountable-Talk-Language-Frames-Student-Cards-1104438.  Both of these students are English language learners.