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Read Aloud Techniques
Move your finger under the words as you read.
Let your child turn the pages.
Act out the characters with your voice as you read.
Take turns reading words, sentences, or whole pages.
Pause and ask open-ended questions like: "How would you feel if you were that person?" "What do you think will happen next?"
Discuss what is happening in the pictures.
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Key Ideas and Details:
With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Craft and Structure:
Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:
With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
(RL.K.8 not applicable to literature)
With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity:
Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.