Interactive Read Aloud

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Interactive Read Aloud Not just a quick story
after recess!

• Linda Biondi and Carol Hotchkiss

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Protocol reminder
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What is a read aloud?
True or False test

• Teacher read alouds are a way to get kids to
  quiet down after recess.
• It is better to play a CD of an actor reading a
  book than to read aloud myself, because the actor
  will do it better than a teacher can.
• Teacher read-alouds are planned oral readings of
  a range of texts.
• They are a vital part of daily literacy
  instruction in all classrooms.

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Why read aloud?

• Teachers can use read-alouds to
• develop their student's background knowledge,
• free students from decoding to become active
  listeners,
• create meaning from spoken text through
  visualization
• enrich student vocabulary,
• stimulate their interest in high-quality
  literature,
• increase their comprehension skills,
• foster critical thinking,
• model strategies that children can use during
  their own independent reading,
• initiate critical conversations through the
  questions they pose,
• prompt children to think and talk about social
  issues that impact their daily lives.

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What is important?

• Choose appropriate texts for students based on
  their interests and social/emotional level.
• Preview and practice the text before reading.
• Establish a clear purpose or focus for the read
  aloud.
• Model fluent, expressive reading.
• Stop periodically to thoughtfully wonder and pose
  questions.
• Link to independent reading and writing.

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Lucy Calkins

• In the teaching of reading there are only a
  handful of things that everyone agrees are
  essential. Perhaps the most important of these
  is the fact that children need to listen to the
  best of childrens literature read aloud to
  them.
• What are some of your best read alouds?

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Best Ever advice on reading aloud
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Videos

• Common Core Aligned Read Aloud to Support
  High-Level Comprehension and Interpretation 
• What are the teachers doing to engage and
  support student understanding?

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Read aloud planner
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Inferring Read aloud

• In this whole-group minilesson, sixth grade
  teacher Katie Doherty uses the book Wilfred
  Gordon McDonald Partridge to have the students
  listen and chart their clues, schema and
  resulting inference.

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Power of reading aloud to your students
guidelines and top 5 read aloud strategies
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Lets not forget nonfiction

• Sean Moore engages his readers in a read aloud of
  the book, Plants That Eat Animals. Sean varies
  the ways the students respond to the read aloud.
  He also chooses to read the text without showing
  any visual supports when he wants the students to
  create mental images, focus on vocabulary, or
  make connections between the text and their
  experiences.

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Choose a paperback book that you would want to
keep and use. Please use the time to create a
read aloud planner that you can use in your
teaching.
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"I am sure you have never done this, but I used
to grab my read aloud selections on my way past
the bookshelf as I walked to the read aloud area.
I was convinced that any read aloud was good and
I still think it is. However, why would we settle
for just "good" when we can have great? Once I
paused to give my read aloud selections more
conscious thought, I realized that I must take
the work of selecting read-aloud very seriously.
With the amazing array of quality children's
literature available, we are selling ourselves,
and our children, short if we settle for just any
read aloud. If we give it just a bit more thought
and choose carefully, read alouds can become a
foundation for expansion of oral language, a
challenging opportunity to stimulate deeper
thinking, a rich moment when we can expose
learners to beautiful art, and most certainly, a
time when we can broaden world knowledge or focus
on the craft of writing." Linda Hoyt
What are you going to do differently tomorrow?
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The Heart of a Teacher