Read Aloud Routine for Improving Vocabulary and Comprehension
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Wanting to up your read aloud game? This lesson plan from Dr. Stephanie Stollar will support you in maximizing vocabulary and comprehension in your read alouds.
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This lesson plan supports the explicit instruction of vocabulary words, syntactic structures, knowledge, and comprehension.
Two common questions I hear in intermediate are: How much time do we devote to a read aloud? What skills are we addressing during a read aloud? This document helps educators ask themselves these questions, and respond critically to the needs of their students.
It is so helpful to see sample lesson plans!
This is a simple outline for teachers to follow with any read aloud book they would like to use. It includes a lesson format for before, during and after reading as well as a weekly plan to follow for digging deeper into a single book.
This is a great sample that will provide educators with a good basis for how curriculum expectations can come together with read alouds. This will serve as a great reminder that we need comprehensive literacy, and that this also includes intentional work with read alouds.