Here is a quick refresher on Acquistion, Make Meaning, and Transfer!

(We also read about this on our district wide PLC day in the Backward Design article!)

Remember Chris Overhoff 's Padlet with great information?

What is Interactive Read -Aloud?

During interactive read aloud, you read aloud a selected text to the whole class, occasionally and selectively pausing for conversation. Students think about, talk about, and respond to the text as a whole group or in pairs, triads, or quads. Both readers and listener actively process the language, ideas, and meaning of text.

Why Interactive Read -Aloud is Important

As an instructional context, interactive read-aloud:

• Allows readers to experience rich, interesting texts that are age and grade appropriate, regardless of their independent or instructional reading level
• Provides a context for learning how to talk about texts with others
• Builds a community of learners with shared literary knowledge
• Expands knowledge, language, and vocabulary
• Builds a foundation of mentor texts for reading and writing mini-lessons

What Interactive Read -Aloud Looks Like

Be sure all students are comfortably seated in the whole group area and can easily see and hear the text being read aloud. Sit at the front while students are clustered facing you. Alternatively, have students sit on chairs in a horseshoe shape. Allow space for students to turn and talk to each other.

Planning for Interactive Read -Aloud

• Find times in your schedule when you will read aloud regularly to your class.
• Create a planned sequence of several related texts over a few days or weeks.
• Read the text and think about what makes it engaging and worthwhile
• Use the Literacy Continuum to think about and determine a few learning goals that will lead students forward in their ability to think and talk about texts.
• Use sticky notes to mark places to ask questions or make brief comments.