My personal experiences of read aloud activities in school are both good and bad. In school I always had a fear of reading aloud in front of the class. When we would do read alouds in class, I would follow along very closely in fear I would have to speak, so even though I was scared the benefit was that I paid attention and followed along. If the text was not in front of me to follow along, then I would daze off and not keep up with what was being read. I know this is just me, but I feel like other students might feel and do the same things as I did.
I think that asking questions that cause students to describe and explain text ideas is a much better idea than just having them recall words from the text. I think it is important for teachers to select texts that students can relate to. If the students are interested in the topic, then they will pay more attention to what is being read aloud. I think the text talk approaches to the components of reading are really great. I will use these for my future classroom.
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