Teacher works in conjunction with a professor of a teacher education class.
These two teachers can be in the same or different states. Literature is selected for both groups to read simultaneously and on a predetermined schedule. Middle school students are paired with college students, and the partners communicate via e-mail about their reading each week for seven weeks. Both groups of students also view a videotape of the book that had been read and communicate with their partner by e-mail, comparing and contrasting the book and the video. Students print and submit e-mails to teacher.