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Georgia Acevedo
I love reading this article about read alouds because the main purpose is to help students interact and make connections to the text. Reading just to read does not serve the purpose of really getting to know and understand the deeper meaning of a text. Through read alouds it allows the teacher to ask those thinking questions and for students to begin to think about what they are reading instead of just reading because its required.

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I love the idea of the alphaboxes! I think this would be a great way to continuously encourage students to interact with text.

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Getting students to engage with texts involves a
multiplicity of simultaneous activities, including motivation, content knowledge, literacy strategies, and
social collaboration before, during, and after a literacy event. It is important to get learners interested reading. Using read-alouds as transitional activities engages learners and promotes active listening. Read-alouds also provide opportunity for teachers to model 'good reading'.

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I love how the author got the students to be interest in the text. Their enthusiasm was amazing. The read allowed process helps our students become interested in the text.

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The article gives some great information on how to incorporate read alouds and so strategies to use. I know we used to heavily rely on connections to self, world and text but with Florida standards it has changed. All in all read alouds are very important for all no matter what grade level

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One of the things that stuck out to me was that reading aloud is a transactional activity. This type of reading engages students to actively listen and question. The examples of the students making a list of what they wanted the teacher to read was great!  Some of the examples wouldn't apply directly to high school, but high school students do love to listen to a good story. Using read alouds can provide students with the motivation to continue reading on their own.

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I agree with the author that it is important for students to make connections to the text they are reading. It activates their background knowledge and helps them gain a better understanding of the text. The author also mentioned discussion webs as an anchor to get students to think about the text before reading. I think this sets a purpose for reading and lets students share their point of view.

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The article references some instructional strategies that we used before Florida Standadrfs and Common Core. Although great strategies for building background, just need to remember that students learn through the text and not to front-load too much
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Even though we do not stress making Text to self, world connections we still are focusing on text to text connections. The connections are still important and at the elementary level, ReadyGen does have a lot of the connections built in as they built through the different texts in a unit.

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When reading or listening to text, the reader or listener draws what they are listening to. This way they can make a connection. Motivation is a top predictor of whether students will engage with texts. Students will also learn more through peer collaboration. Conducting read alouds is the most important activity for building the knowledge of reading. We are modeling how it should look and sound. We are setting the stage for them to be successful readers. Read alouds should be fun and engaging and keep the students wanting to read more. In today’s classroom it’s been pushed to the side and we are taking the fun out of reading.

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Although this article is older, it has some good resources. I love the idea of having scholars choose their own read aloud, this is an amazing opportunity to create a classroom read aloud list. I also liked reading about the discussion we’d organier. I think it’s important for scholars to have an opportunity to share with one another and think through their connections. Cooperative and accountable work!