Catching the Bug for Reading Through Interactive Read-Alouds

Overview

From Theory to Practice

 

OVERVIEW

This lesson uses an interactive read-aloud of Miss Bindergarten Stays Home From Kindergarten by Joseph Slate to help kindergarten and first-grade students learn reading strategies and how to prevent the spread of germs in their classroom. Students discuss and build knowledge about how germs are spread, how to cope with having a substitute teacher, and how to construct a caring classroom community, all while learning about story structure, new vocabulary, and a variety of reading strategies.

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FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE

Barrentine, S.J. (1996). Engaging with reading through interactive read-alouds. The Reading Teacher, 50, 36-43.

• During interactive read-alouds, teachers pose questions throughout the reading that enhance meaning construction and also show how one makes sense of texts.
  
  
• Dialogue during read-aloud events supports students as they construct meaning based on the story and draw upon their personal experiences to build story relevance.
  
  
• These meaning-centered interactions engage students with literacy information and demonstrate strategies that they can adopt for use when reading independently.
  

Rog, L.J. (2001). Early literacy instruction in kindergarten. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.

• Select high-quality literature that extends children's knowledge of literature, language, and the world.
  
  
• Allow students to discuss the text as it is being read to scaffold their construction of meaning.

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