Interactive Read Aloud

Interactive Read Aloud:

Reading aloud is an important component in children’s literacy development. During interactive reading, teachers read a preselected text with the goal of targeting skills and modeling effective reading behavior. Students are active participants who share and extend ideas, answer and ask questions, acquire new vocabulary, and deepen their understanding.

Teacher’s Role

• Read aloud a book selected with a purpose in mind, often a more challenging text

• Model fluency and expression

• Stop periodically at predetermined places throughout story, to ask questions to promote discussions and comprehension

• Showcase new words, ideas or skills

• Determine teaching points

• Model metacognitive thinking

Student’s Role

• Engage in active listening

• Participate in discussions

• Answer and ask questions

• Participate in “turn and talk” and “stop and jot”

Make inferences and predictions