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I am currently going through my TPT products and seeing which ones I can update using Google Suite for Education.  I came across my Book Buddy package and was actually excited to update this one.  I took all the assessments sheets in this package and put them into Google Forms and some Google Slides. I'm excited to create a Google Classroom this upcoming year for my Book Buddies and have the older students use these forms with my little primaries.   You can find my Book Buddy Package in my TPT store at the following link: Book Buddy Package Enjoy! Kemble :-)

In the schools I have worked in, the lower grades pair up with an upper grade class and read once a week.   We call this book buddies.   A few years ago, my little grade 2’s were coming up to me and saying “My book buddy is fooling around.”   I felt really bad for my grade 2’s because they really looked up to the older students and really wanted to read with them.   So I started to think how I could focus the older students and make them feel like they were truly a part of the younger students learning and really have a type of student teacher role with their younger book buddy.   I came up with an idea of a duotang that would hold reading strategies that the older students could refer to when reading with the younger students and a recording sheet (Readers Talk About Books sheet) that focused the older students in helping the younger students.   Every week the older student would use the recording sheet for the first book the younger student was reading.   I couldn’t believe the diff