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4th Grade Teacher, Dina Weiss (Ed.D.), shares the following (Jan., 2023): the students in my class doing a kind of speed dating community share of their reading responses based on their independent books. They were reading each other's responses for the purpose of getting ideas for their own future response work, as well as giving supportive feedback on how their classmate can show deeper thinking with their work. 







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