Interactive Read Aloud

The question that I have chosen for my inquiry project is: How can you improve performance in a first grade classroom with Guided Reading? I am interested in this since I teach first grade. As a first grade teacher I am always looking for ways to improve my class’s performance. Guided reading offers support to the students as they are learning. Rogoff suggested that “adults support children’s learning by structuring the task’s difficulty level, jointly participating in problem solving, focusing the learner’s attention to the task, and motivating the learner.” (Frey & Fisher, 2010, 84).

By creating a student case report, a teacher of reading can develop a holistic understanding of a child's reading development. The benefits of keeping a case report include having diagnostic, formative, and summative data on a student's reading progress combined with anecdotal and teacher observational data which provides contextual information

Student N gave a thumbs-middle for “I am comfortable reading aloud in class.” I shared with him that even as a teacher I am not always comfortable reading in front of people. Student N also shared that sometimes they are comfortable, but it just depends on what they are reading. This will help me build our classroom culture and reflect on how we respect and respond to peers when they are reading or if they make a mistake. I want all students to feel comfortable practicing their reading

The intervention used first was the Peer-Mediated instruction with repeated reading (PRR). During this phase, the students were seated across from each other. The students were then given a copy of the passage, one in which to read, and the other in which to mark the time and note any errors observed, along with a stopwatch. Both students began reading from the selected text for the pair for a duration of twenty minutes at the beginning of the class. Next, the “paired reading” time consisted of each student taking turns reading using only a whisper. To ensure the fidelity of the intervention, measures were taken to ensure that one student didn’t have to be the first reader every time. During the read aloud, the student who wasn’t reading would follow protocol and read the following sentence “Stop. That word is _______. What word? Yes, ________. Please read that sentence again.” After the paired reading time, the reader would then be asked to read

Within their table groups which had been set up deliberately by the teacher to get children with similar reading levels together, the children had to explore different features of the book. One group would work on questions they wanted to ask the characters, another would take in turns to read the book and highlight words they did not understand or had trouble reading. Tennant (2014: 165) tells us that the text used during guided reading should be challenging but the children should still be capable of decoding it. I observed this to be true during my school placement because the children were able to show a wide understanding of what was happening within the book however when they were asked questions about how the character was feeling or what they think would happen next, they took a bit more time to try and get an understanding of this. Tennant (2016) states that “the teacher’s task is to deepen the reader’s understanding of the text by initially ascertaining what sense the reader has made of the text just after having read it”. Tennant’s statement can be evaluated as useful for teaching a good level of guided reading because teachers have to broaden the children’s knowledge of the text. My own observations seemed to be a success because each group was paired with an adult and each adult was drawing out information from pupils by asking questions that got them thinking. Not only were they getting an idea of what children already knew about the text but they

I did this on Friday, September 23rd, on my way to the University Fair downtown. Granted, I thought this was the perfect opportunity to do this assignment because I was exposed to a variety of people throughout the journey. At first, I felt hesitant to begin reading aloud, despite my previous excitement. Eventually, I began to read loudly and

“Anderson, what’s the DOW stock valued at today?” inquires a wealthy businessman, with a hint of concern. In the world of wealth management, this is not an uncommon question, considering that stock holders obsess about their return on investment. Similarly, in the world of academia and educational research, authorities obsess about effective instruction and frequently ask, “what is the current value of literacy?” Educator Jim Trelease uses his book to answer this (The Read-Aloud Handbook, 2013). Academically, Trelease gives readers a synopsis of why classrooms need reading aloud time and how they can capitalize it; in addition to the facts, Jim uses a personal tone to remind readers that literacy education is an investment in everyone’s future.

My experience will meet the needs and interest of the children because the children like to read stories. I would always see the children reenact parts of the story and talk about what had happen. This experience will contribute to the children emerging literacy skills because I'm helping them hence something they already know intrust in. They show intrust in reading stories and also reacting. My activity lets the children explore more.

For a read aloud the teacher is in control, so the teacher will be reading the book while the students will be listening to the story. The level of the book should be at or above the students level. The stories that are read to the students should include a

I believe I did pretty good when I read-aloud. My voice was loud enough for everyone to hear me and I tried to pronounce every word correctly. I think I only messed up on few words in the book. I do not know if any of the kids even notice it. I would not say I was awesome at it but not bad for my first time to read aloud to a whole class before. I kept the book facing the students so they can see the pictures and I only look at the book few times. Most of the time I tried to keep looking at all the students while I read to them. And those are

I always had a really hard time finding motivation to read during school. I liked the idea of a good story but I hated the act of actually reading. One other major problem was that I never thought a book would be good enough to commit that much time to it. That being said, having a my classmates suggest a book for me or being able to use their comments and review to help pick out a book would have been super helpful. Instead of trying to take the word of my teacher, I would be able to have a review or a suggestion that I would have seemed to be much more relatable. Also, being a history major, I feel that using the reading out-loud method would be really helpful. A lot of the material I would potentially be teaching would cover a lot of big names of people and places, so to work together and read aloud so they were able to hear the names out loud and hear how they were supposed to be pronounced would be a major help for them.

I learned from this video that I need to be more mindful of the ways in which I will teach my future students about reading and decoding text. I need to show them how to look closely at details within the story so that they understand the shift in mood/tone, grammar and word usage. It is important for students to read at a pace that they are comfortable with in order to gain full meaning of the book or story. Also, it is crucial that they read at his or her own pace in order to make sure they do not miss details that could be important.

For the second interactive read aloud, teachers should read the book for a second time

Teachers should teach reading in, fun, exciting, and research based findings in order to help students with their comprehension. The teacher from the video "Rick's Reading Workshop: Mini-Lesson", did an exemplary job of executing all three of these factors to positively impact his students comprehension. His class was built on the foundation of wanting all his students to have a love of reading, because he believed that when students are engaged and having fun they are more susceptible to comprehend and ask questions. He read to the students in a tone that was highly engaging, and overall a joy to listen to, the students were actively engaged and with the teachers enthusiasm they never had a chance to stray from topic. I also appreciate

Since Lilly had several weaknesses such as lack of motivation/engagement, skipping words, and not achieving fluency I would love to provide her with an interactive shared reading to improve her weaknesses. An interactive shared reading experience is a great strategy to encourage the student to join in/share the reading with a book while the student is guided and supported by the teacher. With an interactive shared reading, I will be able to model