Goal
Make reading feel shared and manageable — less pressure, more momentum, and a natural model of fluent reading built right in.
You'll need
- Beginner Book Review
- Intermediate Book Review
How to do it
Pick a book and take turns: you read a sentence (or paragraph), they read a sentence. Pass it back and forth. If they stumble on a word, carry on — don't stop to correct mid-relay unless they ask for help.
Hearing you read fluently between their turns is genuinely useful — they're getting a live model of what reading sounds like at full speed. The relay format also keeps the story moving, which helps with children who find long reading sessions exhausting.
Fill in a book review together when you're done. Writing about it while the story's fresh is much better than coming back to it later.
Grab our resources
Print our beginner book review and intermediate book review to get started.
