Book buddies stuffed animals

Reading Buddies can improve reading fluency and decrease stress. Let me share ideas and a free printable with you and get you going with Reading Buddies!

Keep your students motivated to hit their weekly and monthly reading goals by offering a little motivation or reward. Here are some of our favorite ideas.

Having stuffed animals in the classroom can provide emotional comfort and academic support. Here are five ways you can use stuffed animals in the classroom.

Reading buddies can help stubborn readers get through a book. It can be amazing to see the growth a student shows during independent reading, simply because they have extrinsic motivation. These plush animals also serve to bring reading to life, as they are all characters from popular children's books. Who wouldn't love to turn around during class and see Clifford looking back at you?

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Book buddies is one of my new favorite things this year! I saw this post on Pinterest and loved the bucket of book buddies. I’m not a big stuffed animal person but my new library came with a crazy number of puppets. I’m also not a puppet person so I kept the puppets that were in good condition and threw them in a bucket. I left the bucket out thinking they could be book buddies for kids to read with. I didn’t expect them to be a huge hit but they are! In every grade, K-4, the kids absolutely…