Shared reading. big kids with little kids.

Last week for our Book Week celebrations in the Secondary School, our Year 9 students read aloud to students in Lower Elementary.
This activity was fun from start to finish. Teachers were so enthusiastic and supportive of the idea. And all the students loved it!
Our Year 9s were assigned to a Lower Elementary class and a timetable created. They chose a picture book to read, practised it and planned an interesting way to introduce it.
This was such a simple, successful activity, we will definitely repeat it.
Here is the link to our video of the activity.
We shared this video with students in Secondary School assembly, and it was part of the whole-school Book Week video we shared with all staff at our Friday Briefing.