One was the read aloud for the sake of loving reading. I have some time carved out for teaching strategies through read aloud, but this time is just for reading and enjoying stories. What I noticed this week was it came back to if they enjoyed the book or not. I also noticed that students were able to have meaningful discussions, because they had the skills from our strategy work. (Thanks new reading materials!)
Here's what we read, and some thoughts from first graders.
I was gone when this book was read. When I pulled it out the next day, immediately the children sighed and cheered regarding how much they love this book. |
The students were familiar with this book. We had great conversation about the illustrations in this book. |
So our first week of a refocus on read alouds has been a success! Lots of great conversations and I think we might be starting to have a true love of reading as a class! (Yay!)
Joy!
Kendra
Woohoo! I love reading aloud for pleasure...it is probably what I miss most about having a classroom of my own. I'm a little obsessed with Jon Klassen's books. Have you read I Want My Hat Back? And once you read that, you must read Extra Yarn.
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