“When teachers read books aloud and readers respond to a text, a new story is created. Each person brings their own complex thinking to that text, unlike anyone else, and when that happens something beautiful unfolds.”

~Credit to Tanny McGregor

Read aloud teaches the how of interacting with text and the why of meaning making from texts. It increases receptive and expressive vocabulary, improves fluency, strengthens comprehension, and increases motivation to read. In the read aloud, the responsibility for negotiating the text is on the teacher; the responsibility for making meaning is shared by teacher and students.

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Ways in which students can interact with the text during Read Aloud:

• Take notes...paper or digital
• Sketchnote - paper, digital, whiteboard
• Follow along in a book.
• Back channel
• Post your “Notices & Wonders” on a class Padlet.
• Act it out