Read Alouds
Teachers have been reading aloud to their students for years. This evidence based practice helps prevent a variety of literacy difficulties. Here are some facts about read alouds:
- Read alouds benefit all types of children and can be used through a wide range of ages and benefit multiple literacy skills
- Read alouds can be conducted by the teacher reading a book to his/her students or through a pre-recorded story where children can follow along.
- This is a great time for teachers to introduce new vocabulary words and to have students repeat the new words back to the teacher
- Once the book has been read to the class, the teacher can use it to teach for comprehension skills, using prompts such as summarizing, predicting and monitoring (Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children).
- Read alouds teach phonic instruction and phonemic awareness. Children can quietly consolidate their knowledge of these skills during read alouds if the teacher uses the strategy of tracking print as they read.
- Read alouds play a major role in reinforcing reading and oral reading growth. When teachers model good reading behavior, children learn language patterns. These help children realize that different genres are read differently and they encourage enjoyment of reading.
- Read alouds foster better reading habits and therefore by modeling these reading habits, children are more likely to benefit from independant reading time
- Read alouds allow for teachers to prompt class wide discussions. It is some times helpful to use books to introduce more challenging concepts and thus ease into stimulating a deeper classroom discussion
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Each day the students are able to participate at the Listening Centre where they can listen to the recording of a book and follow along with the book in front of them. At l’Ecole Ablausi, daily read alouds are highly recommended. Teachers can integrate read alouds into their morning routines and/or into literacy lessons.
It is important that since the story the teacher will be reading is in French he/she must model reading then have the students repeat the text. This evidence-based concept suggests that having young children repeat important words during reading may greatly improve their ability to remember them.
RECIPES
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/balancedliteracydiet/Recipe/50078/
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/balancedliteracydiet/Recipe/50320/
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/balancedliteracydiet/Recipe/50285/
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/balancedliteracydiet/Recipe/50251/
It is important that since the story the teacher will be reading is in French he/she must model reading then have the students repeat the text. This evidence-based concept suggests that having young children repeat important words during reading may greatly improve their ability to remember them.
RECIPES
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/balancedliteracydiet/Recipe/50078/
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/balancedliteracydiet/Recipe/50320/
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/balancedliteracydiet/Recipe/50285/
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/balancedliteracydiet/Recipe/50251/