Student Startup

Question: What are ways to pair students and get them started?

Response #1:

Big Buddies share a book/game - choosing partners on their own. Teachers observe who works/doesn’t work as partners. Teachers sit together to partner after observation.
-Conny

Response #2:

Talk about favorites: foods, games, books, movies, pets, vacations, toys, etc. Read together. Draw family pictures; tell about members and write names, including pets.
-Dorinda

Response #3:

One thing my upper grade cross-age teacher teammate and I did was to give each student a questionnaire of favorite things and also a frame of a face for them to draw each other. This was a nice ice breaker to get them to talk.
-Carolyn B

Response #4:

1) We did a Venn diagram of similarities and differences. 2) Interviews work great too.
-Suzan

Response #5:

The main goal for our cross-age friendship is reading support. We have tried to pair students by native language and facility with reading/reading readiness. We introduce them through modeled lessons of self introductions. Big Buddies will present counting books they have made for little Buddies. They’ll model good reading techniques and self-made books.
-Pam

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