Read Aloud Padlet by Susan Kathleen Midkiff

Access to Books

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Book Fairs

Book Giveaways

Access to the Library

Bookmobiles

C.A.R Strategy

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When reading with the child parents should:

Comment and wait

Ask and wait (Ask open and closed questions)

Respond by adding a little more(Repeating what the child says and adding a few more words)

This group rocks!

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Introduction to book at a young age is critical in developing their love of books/reading.

Completion Prompts

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Completion prompts are sentences that are intentionally left incomplete, inviting children to fill in the missing word or phrase. They are often used in books with rhymes or repetitive phrases.

These prompts encourage active participation, enhance language skills, and help children understand sentence structure, supporting their overall reading development.

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Students who have not been exposed to books lack skills of vocabulary, sentence structure, and other basic skills that are required to do well in school

3 Principles

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A.) Encourage children to be active learners during book reading.

B.)Provide feedback to encourage more sophisticated language.

C.) Challenges a child's knowledge and skills by raising level a little each time.

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Print referencing means to point out important features, texts or cues in a story to help students focus more and obtain a better knowledge of the story. 1-4 references per story is ideal to not overdue and distract the students.

Read Alouds

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Text talk, print referencing, and dialogic reading can yield better academic performance for children.

Open Ended Prompts

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Open ended prompts are often used when talking about illustrations. An example of this would be asking, "tell me what is happening in this picture" when there is a picture in a book. Open ended prompts help improve expressive fluency and attention to detail.

Stats

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More than a third of children in the US enter school unprepared
Many children enter school with thousands of hours of book experiences, while others come in with less than 25
By nine months of age, a child can appreciate books with sensory elements

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Maximizing effectiveness in read aloud

appropriate time set
quality books
read your classroom, know your students that year
use expressive tone
use student background knowledge
use immediate talk "who was the main character?"
use not immediate talk "why...?"
select read-aloud integrated to curriculum

Recall Prompts

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Teacher can asks question before or after reading a book to a student.

This helps students understand story plots and sequence events.
For example, “Can you tell me what happened to the little blue engine in this story?'

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When children see others reading for pleasure, it increases the likelihood of them reading as a pastime.

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Examples:

Tracking print

Pointing to print

Questions about print- "Where is the title?"

Request about print- "Where should I start?"

Comments about print- "That word is stop."

Wh Prompts, Distancing Prompts, and Dialogic Reading

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Wh- prompts are what, where, when, why and how questions relating to the pictures in the book.

Distancing prompts helps children take a bridge between the real world and in the book world.

A technique that works - Dialogic reading is having conversations while reading a book with children and adults. It keeps it fun and hype so it can get a child's interest.

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Dialogic reading provides a simple structure for making parent-students or teacher-students read aloud more effective and productive. It is most commonly used with preschool children but is appropriate for older children as well.

Enjoyment!

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Parent read alouds should bring children enjoyment. Focusing on a positive attitude can motivate students to read more.

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Reading aloud was called "the single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading”

But surprisingly, teachers who read more produced students with worse reading achievement than teachers who read less and had fewer interactions.

Yet, reading aloud promotes a variety of skills and abilities.

How does it make sense? We need to look at the methods used when reading aloud.

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Strategies to use

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Emphasis on "what" questions

Following answers with questions.

Repeating what the child says back to them.

Providing help and praise.

Research Based Read-Aloud Methods

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Dialogic - Questions to promote original thinking, by using recall and open ended prompts like what where and why.

Text to talk - engaging in rich discussion, the teacher utilizes several words from the story to discuss them more in depth and increase vocabulary.

Print Referencing - refers to the verbal and nonverbal cues, like tracking print or pointing to print in pictures to recall events in a story