5.8 Demonstrate research-based instructional practices to facilitate students' monitoring and self-correcting in reading.
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Read Alouds & Buddy Reading Monitoring and self-correcting are behaviors that every young reader should learn. If students never read aloud, they might always mispronounce or improperly emphasize words. They also might skip over words or breeze past punctuation. Reading aloud to the class, in small group, or with their peers allows them to hear what it should sound like and make necessary corrections. There are many instructional practices that teach and foster these skills.
Reading aloud to my students is easily my favorite part of the day. Treeline Elementary participates in the reading of the Sunshine State Standard books. They are provided to the school, and the second grade teachers can take turns checking them out and reading them to their class. I took over this responsibility early on. I have always loved reading to children, and I find myself reading emphatically and doing funny voices. After quickly demolishing the picture books, we started on short chapter books. My Pet Human by Yasmine Surovec has been a class favorite. I am always sure to ask the students what they think will happen next or to describe what is happening in the pictures. Read alouds give students the opportunity to make predictions as well as to hear my prosody and intonation. For as long as I can remember, when I pictured myself as an educator, I pictured myself reading to my students each day. Now that I am in the classroom every day, I know that this image might be a bit naïve. There is so much material to cover, and there is so little time. However, I firmly believe that the benefits of taking that time to read aloud to your students are so influential and lasting. I will find the time. I will make the time. It is just too valuable not to. |