Directions
1) Set up your classroom so that students are sitting next to someone as if in an airplane. If there is an odd amount of students, that is okay - that just means that you will take part in the activity!
2) In each pair of students, one will be X and one will be Y.
3) Give students a comprehensible reading, and have them do a regular ping pong/volleyball style reading.
4) After a set amount of time (usually two minutes), then Y students will move forward a seat to a new row (see below picture for example)
5) Like in ping pong/volleyball reading, with their new partners, students are to determine the earlier stopping point between the two of them, and at that point, they will start. Explain to students that repetition is good and will only benefit them.
6) After two minutes of reading with their new partner, Y students will move again.
7) Continue again for about 10 more minutes. If students finish the reading, they are start over again at the beginning.
Observations
1) Like Read Dating, this is another fun way to go through a reading. Carol Gaab always says, "The brain craves novelty."
2) The movement keeps the activity from getting stale. I always tell students "If you have to read with someone whom you do not like, don't worry - you are only working with that person for two minutes!"
3) To keep things novel, sometimes I will alternate between having X and Y students move. If you do this, then X students will move the other direction, because if they move like the Y students, they will read again with a former partner! The idea of movement is to allow students to read with a new partner each round.
4) You may want to practice having the Y students move a few times before you begin the activity so that they know ahead of time where to go, especially the one who has to move to the other side of the room.
5) I usually spend no more than 15 minutes (at the most) on a reading activity like this, because students will start to tire of reading.
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