Rio School District
Read-Alouds
Whole Group
Benefits for Students
Benefits for Students
- acquire awareness of the structure of language
- learn new vocabulary
- build oral language
- gain background knowledge and true fluency
- develop critical thinking skills through discussion and collaborative work
- be exposed to a variety of reading material, how different genre and text types are read differently
- build culturally responsive classrooms
- discover why one reads- and develop their own love of reading - when they hear the teacher read interesting material in an engaging way
Planning
Planning
- Decide on purpose (introducing or revisiting big theme ideas, strategy instruction, knowledge of literature, exposure to text types, connect to SEL competencies)
- Choose a text (suited to purpose, challenging, culturally relevant/reflects diversity and enjoyable)
- Preview the text (notate/tab reference points for instruction, think-alouds, open-ended questions, and assessment points, choose a “hook”)
- Student interaction/Assessment (answer questions individually, turn/talk, stop/jot, sketch, sign language/hand motions)
- Identify vocabulary (pre-teach or step-aside)
- Practice (facial expression/body gestures as well as all prosodic elements)
Kindergarten example
Kindergarten example
4th grade example
4th grade example
TOSA Tips
TOSA Tips
- Be intentional
- Balance reading, thinking and discussion time
- Connect to small-group instruction/practice to deepen students’ understanding
- Encourage students to practice strategy in their independent reading