Technically, this isn’t a read-aloud ritual, but it definitely counts as a reading ritual. And it’s a favorite in my friend Jennie’s 5th and 6th grade classrooms. During independent reading time students silently read books of choice as they do every other day, except they read by the light of their flashlights!
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