Here are some of the strategy notes from our reading lessons recently. As you can see we've been working on being sure we truly understand our books, paying attention to the story as we read, noticing and figuring out the meaning of a word we don't know when we encounter it-- because if we don't get it, what is the point of reading?!
As
a culminating activity in our current unit of reading lessons, we are
working on doing a fabulous job reading aloud in order to each make an
audio recording of a book of our choice. Students hear adults read
books aloud every day, and they listen to their reading partners. But we
also gave a careful listen to an audio book of Whistle for Willie to
think about what an audio book reader does that we might try when we
read to sound great; students noticed a lot of things, like change your
voice to go with how the character is feeling, and pay attention to
things like exclamation points, and notice dialogue tags (like 'John
whispered,' or 'shouted Susan' after quotation marks). Here's a couple
pictures of some students doing their audio recordings with an iPad.
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