ETL402 6.3 Responding to Literature: The Read Aloud

Select one of the strategies for sharing or responding to literature and identify a subject learning area that you could apply it to. Share your thoughts on why you think this strategy could support literary learning in that discipline and provide a starting point for implementing it.

I love a good read aloud. The read aloud strategy was a great way for me to not only ensure that the students in my classes actually read the novel we were studying in English but also gave me an opportunity to engage them with the content and construction of the text through social learning.

Even high school, students who had never willingly read a book independently would listen, follow along, and engage with the discussion around the novel throughout the read aloud activity, and this would set them up nicely to examine the text in the ensuing modified literature circles activity. They’d say it was “cringe” when I’d do the voices, but secretly they enjoyed it (especially Gollum in The Hobbit, or if a character swore!).

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