Jared Weisberg
September 21st, 2014
3rd Post
After reading Chapter 5, I had countless memories of Elementary School flow through my mind. In particular, the reading to children and reading with children. I felt a very strong connection to the text in these few pages because I could recount all the times my past teachers displayed these same strategies or even my parents. For instance, in the text it stated how we have two kinds of reading aloud: the traditional read-aloud and the interactive read-aloud. The major difference is that the comprehension strategies are used during the interactive read-aloud because their is much more discussion going on. However, I find both methods of reading aloud to be extremely effective and especially beneficial. The traditional read aloud is a great tool to use when your parents read a story to you before bedtime because it allows you to get lost into the story. As a result, you feel as if your one of the particular characters in that story. It helps you have a better understanding of the story and want to continue reading. On the other hand, the interactive read aloud is fantastic because it allows students to get a better understand of how to incorporate comprehension strategies into their reading. Children learn how to predict, question, visualize and make connections. As one can see, reading aloud is more than just story time, it helps students develop into stronger readers and especially learners. Lastly, I remember reading the book, "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie"because my mom implemented the traditional read aloud. Ever since she read that book to me, I can recount almost the whole story because I felt as if I was that mouse. Till this day it's one of my favorite books of all time and I'm very thankful my mom introduced this book to me through read aloud because that is the whole reason why I love the book. I plan on doing read alouds to my future students with both strategies (traditional and interactive).
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