Interactive Read-Alouds: Linking Standards, Fluency, and Comprehension
Grades K–1, 2–3, and 4–5
Linda Hoyt's Interactive Read-Alouds is a powerful resource that helps teachers recast read-alouds of treasured favorites as springboards to deeper understanding of comprehension strategies, literary devices, and writing traits. This course reveals the principles behind the resource and how to put those principles into practice, including how to:
- choose exemplary mentor text
- target lessons to specific standards and learning outcomes
- engage children deeply in conversation that pushes their thinking and ensures every child has the chance to use content vocabulary while gaining control over the target learning
- extend and sustain read-aloud lessons across other texts and content areas to promote deeper understanding.
Teachers will learn how to use Interactive Read-Aloud lessons to introduce a strategy, writing trait, or literary device then extend the targeted learning in a shared reading at the overhead and a reader's theater experience, where fluency is addressed in combination with the targeted standard. In addition, teachers will discover how to create a physical space that supports effective interactive read-aloud, how to fit interactive read-aloud into their existing curriculum, and how to link it to small group instruction and independent reading. The resource's assessment tools and rubrics for analyzing oral language development, questioning strategies, fluency, evaluative retelling, comprehension strategies and writing traits will also be explored, as well as how the shared reading and readers theater scripts link to science and social studies standards.
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