Four Components of the Pinoy Reading Buddies

Step One: Picture Walk – PW (Predicting, discussing, building confidence)

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Picture Walk means students walk through or examine all book pages with pictures and talk about what they see in each picture. This gets the students to tell the story and build their predicting and communication skills.

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This also develops their oral language as student pairs talk about what they see to make sense of the story.  A participative and collaborative approach, Picture Walk improves the students literacy and thinking skills in general with minimal teacher supervision.

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Step Two: Read Out Loud – ROL (Decoding)

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Read Out Loud requires partners to take turns reading the story out loud. This gives them practice in decoding to improve their reading fluency. For inexperienced readers, this strengthens the connection between Printed Word and Spoken Word.

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Step Three: Word Wall – WW (Vocabulary Building)

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Word Wall means to examine challenging English words to ensure vocabulary development. Each student pair identifies at least three words they are unfamiliar with, discusses their possible meaning, consults with the teacher or uses dictionary in the classroom (which has to be made available). Seeing new learned words on the designated Word Wall encourages retention; learning is reinforced when teachers and students use these words whenever possible.

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Step Four: Reading Log – RL (Tracking)

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Reading Log means to document personal measurable goals using standard metrics in learning to read, and track progress on assigned English reading books.