ICS Head Start, in Grenada, Mississippi, prepared for the new school year with Pre-Service Workshops on August 13, 2009. The Reading Aloud class that I taught focused on learning skills to use for pre-reading, during reading, and after reading.
Asking questions before reading the story helps the teacher recognize the child's background knowledge and experience with the subject. During reading the teacher may pause to clarify vocabulary or meaning of text. She may stop and ask the class "What do you think is going to happen next?" before she turns the page. Extensions that follow reading aloud a story help the child pick out important parts, learn sequence, and apply higher order thinking. Each teacher received a TIME FOR READING FUN bag with items to use in their story times. These included: Eyeball It, Frog & Toad puppets, Read My Lips Signs for retelling, and a Read Aloud Learning Wheel that showed best practices for reading aloud. Also in the bag was a foam star with the 5 W's - Who, What, When, Where, & Why, and yes, we did 'Dance with the Stars'. Lastly, a song sheet had words to familiar tunes that could be used while teaching basic concepts. Learning takes place when we engage our students in the process.
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