The Reading Experiences Associated with Partners (REAP) approach to science combines reading process and product. Students work together sharing their ideas, interests, and knowledge. Results are recorded, and every effort is made to arrange the classrom so that it will aid students in meeting the task objectives. Children can be paired with a peer with whom they like to work, one who possesses similar prerequisite science skills, or one of similar or different ethnic background. Teachers act as guides, stimulators, facilitators, and questioners, as they move smoothly from pair to pair. Paired students select reading activities from a set of approximately ten task cards related to a particular reading concept, and must successfully complete eight of the ten tasks in order to fulfill competency in that area. Each task card contains an aim (give students directive purpose), an activity (a basic reading assignment that all students should successfully complete), and a challenge (an optional enrichment assignment). The REAP approach is fun, effective, inexpensive, and an option for the teacher who is concerned with providing as much individual assistance as possible. (HTH)