Reading with someone helps readers, especially developing readers, increase comprehension, accuracy, fluency, and prosody. In addition, children love partner reading and readily participate with books of their choosing, increasing engagement, attention, and collaboration. 

This simple picture book explores love, loss, and the unintended consequences of protecting our hearts too much.

Read to Self is the first of the Daily 5 choices to be launched because it is the foundation for developing independent readers and writers. 

The words for word work really depend on student need.