The active reading aloud is great for the students, its sounds like especially at the age of your student where while reading to someone, she realizes that she put the emphasis in the wrong spot. Some of those aspects we skip in our heads while reading to ourselves. Im wondering how middle school aged students feel about reading aloud? most of the times I see it in the classroom, it is academic text, not something that they choose. The academic text can make it more intimidating and maybe students dont enjoy it as much. But I do know how helpful it is for our literacy.
I wondered how she would do, too. If we weren't friends already - or if she had been a little older, I don't know if she would have felt as comfortable..
How cool and exciting Sarah that your 6th grader is an active reader, and gets all excited about the book, can make predictions "as if she was commenting on a soap opera"!
I liked your description of the situation of you gals reading to each other while "frosting a cake", you reading to her, then she reading to you. I could picture it in my mind as a stress-free situation. I want to take that image with me and try to create that atmosphere with my students when I do the DRA's with them!
I also like your question to her "do you act out the characters in your imagination"? Thanks!
I'm sorry this is so long! I didn't realize I went that far over. This was hard to do quickly. You can stop listening after two minutes ;)
ReplyDeleteThe active reading aloud is great for the students, its sounds like especially at the age of your student where while reading to someone, she realizes that she put the emphasis in the wrong spot. Some of those aspects we skip in our heads while reading to ourselves. Im wondering how middle school aged students feel about reading aloud? most of the times I see it in the classroom, it is academic text, not something that they choose. The academic text can make it more intimidating and maybe students dont enjoy it as much. But I do know how helpful it is for our literacy.
ReplyDeleteI wondered how she would do, too. If we weren't friends already - or if she had been a little older, I don't know if she would have felt as comfortable..
ReplyDeleteHow cool and exciting Sarah that your 6th grader is an active reader, and gets all excited about the book, can make predictions "as if she was commenting on a soap opera"!
ReplyDeleteI liked your description of the situation of you gals reading to each other while "frosting a cake", you reading to her, then she reading to you. I could picture it in my mind as a stress-free situation. I want to take that image with me and try to create that atmosphere with my students when I do the DRA's with them!
I also like your question to her "do you act out the characters in your imagination"? Thanks!