The interactive read aloud is an opportunity for students to listen to quality literature and observe skills that a good reader uses while reading text.
Purposes of Interactive Read Aloud:
1. Model: how readers think, how to close read, how to use inflection while reading, how to work through difficult parts of text.
2. Reinforce: This is not a time to teach new skills or strategies, but to instead reinforce what students have already learned through mini-lessons.
3. Introduce rich, quality texts: Introduce students to new genres, authors, and great text.
4. Spark interest in students: reading a variety of different read aloud texts allows students to become inspired by what they read and encourages them to investigate more about an author, topic, or genre.
Teacher Role:
•Model strategies taught in mini-lessons
•Model what good readers do while reading (connections, post it, etc.)
•Model fluent reading with inflection & intonation
Student Role:
•Listen & participate when invited to do so
•Practice good reader strategies in head (connections, comments, etc.)
•Observe teacher’s thinking and reading habits
Purposes of Interactive Read Aloud:
1. Model: how readers think, how to close read, how to use inflection while reading, how to work through difficult parts of text.
2. Reinforce: This is not a time to teach new skills or strategies, but to instead reinforce what students have already learned through mini-lessons.
3. Introduce rich, quality texts: Introduce students to new genres, authors, and great text.
4. Spark interest in students: reading a variety of different read aloud texts allows students to become inspired by what they read and encourages them to investigate more about an author, topic, or genre.
Teacher Role:
•Model strategies taught in mini-lessons
•Model what good readers do while reading (connections, post it, etc.)
•Model fluent reading with inflection & intonation
Student Role:
•Listen & participate when invited to do so
•Practice good reader strategies in head (connections, comments, etc.)
•Observe teacher’s thinking and reading habits