During this strategy, students will practice their oral reading skills and their fluency skills while reading aloud to their stuffed animal friends. The teacher can provide stuffed animals to students, or the students can bring in their own from home. Students will use these stuffed animals as their “buddy” as they are reading aloud. “Reading aloud is a great technique to improve fluency and reading skills. According to recent research, reading aloud makes words easier to remember and helps children focus better on the material in front of them. However, not everyone enjoys reading aloud in front of other people. That’s how a stuffed animal reading buddy can help,” (The Zoo Factory, 2019). With this, we can see that using these reading buddies in the classroom can help students build their confidence with reading aloud while also working to improve their fluency skills. The fluency skills that students will be working on with this strategy are reading with accuracy, speed, and proper expression. While students are working on these skills with their reading buddy, the teacher should be continuously moving around the classroom and checking in with students as they are reading. The teacher should be making conversations with the students and making notes of what areas the student may need to improve on in their reading and checking in with students to see what areas of fluency may need to be reviewed as a whole.