A teacher should have an Interactive read aloud. A read aloud allows the teacher to model how to read a book and the students have the opportunity to concentrate on understanding the book. In a read aloud the teacher should allow students to talk about the book. A read aloud is important for students to understand how they should read and what they should doing when they read the story. Also, read aloud model conversation teachers want their students to have during guided reading groups. Read aloud provide the students the opportunity to concentrate on strategies for comprehension. This is great way for students to learn in a different way because the students are watching the teacher and listening to the teacher read. According to Sibberson & Szymusicak (2003) " the read-aloud notebook is a safe place for readers to use writing as means to think more deeply about the text. We don't give much direction. We simply ask students to write down whatever they are think. This allows us to see the ways students naturally respond to text. It helps us to see who is risk taker and who is worried about "getting it right"(Sibberson & Szymusicak, 2003, pp. 37). The read aloud notebooks allows the students the freedom to respond the answer. The teacher can see what the child understands and what the child struggles with. We can notice the progress the student has made throughout the year by comparing read aloud entries.
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In IPS, my teacher does read aloud in her classroom. However, she does not ask question through out the book so I am not sure if the children are understanding the material. Sometimes, the teacher allows students to draw pictures about the story but she does not make them write about the story. I think it is important for the teacher to ask questions and to write something about the story. This teaches children what they need to do when reading a story. The teacher should allow freedom in writing about the read aloud so the children can focus on their strengths.
This website provides a list of read aloud books to read to all ages.http://www.readaloudamerica.org/ReadingList2009.htm
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