Sunday, January 31, 2010
Coming up this week: Teacher Read Alouds
Over this coming week I'm going to be doing a series of posts on reading aloud in the classroom. Is there anything about read-alouds you want to know about or want to read about? Comment here!
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- A Reader's Community
- Queensland, Australia
- A Reader's Community is a place to find ideas, information, resources and recommendations about Reader's Workshop.
This Blog has five main types of posts.
About Reader's Workshop - information about Reader's Workshop in my classroom and how it works
Reader's Workshop Tools - resources you can access and use to help you with reader's workshop
Book talks - Book recommendations of two or three books centred around a particular theme
Book letters - in-depth reviews of one particular book
Reader's Workshop Links - Short links lists to help you find more information
3 comments:
Read Alouds are such a powerful tool! I feel that the teacher has the responsibility to "sell" books that the consumer (student) wouldn't necessarily "buy" on his/her own. Therefore, try to find titles and authors that they may not be familiar with...ones that have rich vocabulary, believable characters, possibly humor, etc. There is nothing that bugs me more than a teacher reading aloud a novel that the students would already read. Sell them something that they have no idea about. Give them a taste and then let them dig in!
As a pre-service teacher I would love to hear your ideas on teacher read alouds:
1. Do you set a focus/purpose for
read alouds with the class?
2. What do you let the kids do
whilst you are reading i.e.
draw, take notes (e.g. I
wonder?), read along with
another copy?
3. Do you model thinking aloud
(comprehension) whilst reading
or at the end of the read
aloud?
I look forward to your posts..I am sure there will be great ideas I can put in place during my next prac.
Cathy-Anne, I hope I've answered most of your questions here: http://areaderscommunity.blogspot.com/2010/02/about-readers-workshop-mechanics-of.html Good luck in your next prac :)
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