After Sharing the Read-Aloud 12 Summarize Once you’ve completed the read-aloud, invite students to share their thinking. Share yours as well, but be careful not to dominate the conversation and overwhelm your students. The goal is to inspire them to talk—to engage in academic conversation about the book and topics. Acquiring the language of books and the language to talk about books is a cumulative process that builds over time, across books and discussions. Support Student Learning 13 Notable Text Features It is important for you, as the teacher, to understand the supportive and challenging features of the text. Depending on the difficulties of a given text and your knowledge of your students’ abilities, you may
We offer these guidelines to develop a shared academic language: • Talk about a concept in everyday language.
• Use examples until students understand the basic concept. • Provide the label for what students already understand (name it) and invite them to use the new vocabulary, as appropriate for the age and grade. To help focus the discussion, you may want to record students’ thoughts, ideas, and questions on chart paper, or on an interactive whiteboard. Monitor and record your observations of each student’s participation. While it is certainly not necessary—or even advisable—to extend every text, some texts call for further exploration. Take your cues from your observations of student learning.
need to reread specific passages or point out additional items to either ensure or to deepen students’ understanding.
14 Vocabulary We have distinguished between Tier 2 and Tier 3 words students will encounter during the read-aloud (Essential Words) from those that may not be in the book itself, but when understood, will enhance conversation and understanding (Related Words for Discussion). When meanings of words can be discovered through context, you can model and reinforce how to learn vocabulary from context clues. Where that isn’t possible, you can define the words aloud for students, in student-friendly language. Definitions are provided here for your convenience.
16 Comprehension Clubs Grades K–5 Implementation Guide
Interactive Read-Aloud
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