This article describes evidence based practices that encourage students' interactions with printed material. It is hoped that these interactions of student involvement with print will lead to intrinsic motivation to read regularly and widely.
The read aloud process is enormously beneficial to literacy learning. The reader incorporates variations in pitch, tone, pace, volume, eye contact, questions, and comments to produce a fluent and enjoyable delivery.
Read aloud is the single most important activity for building knowledge required for successful reading. It builds listening, speaking and reading skills.
I am currently reading Charlotte's Web to my second graders. We are going to see the play on Thursday and I wanted them to be familiar with the story. I decided to give them the alphaboxes worksheet and instructed them to try to write down 8 things they heard that they knew about or wanted to know about.
After each chapter, we discussed words, phrases, questions, ideas and anything else they wrote in the alphaboxes. For some, it was a struggle to get 8 words on their worksheet. We are not quite through with the read aloud yet, but I do think this activity is helping them understand the vocabulary and to comprehend better..
After seeing the play, I do plan to compare and contrast the book with the play.
GPS
ELA2LSV1 - The student uses oral & visual strategies to communicate.
ELA2R1 - The student applies knowledge of letter-sound correspondence and spelling patterns to decode unfamiliar words.
ELA2R2 - The students acquires and uses grade level words to communicate effectively.
ELA2R4 - The student uses a variety of strategies to gain meaning from grade level text.
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