Megan Jones

February 6, 2011
Chapter Five - Notes

Chapter 5 – Well Read: Promoting comprehension through read

alouds and shared readings

Intro
Heading/Subheading Read alouds and
Information of shared Doesn’t
Reactionthis
oftake up
reading both borrowed
interest valuable class time?
information
from the developmental Reading is important,
reading but reading a whole
book… could take a
week!

Read Alouds Enhances literacy for What about the student

children who will fall asleep?
That’s what happened
to me. Lights go out,
my mind wanders when
someone reads to me.

Read alouds are a Of course, the student

favorite literacy activity ‘think’ they aren’t doing
anything or learning, so
they love it!
Helps students who
have reading This is a good, yes!
challenges/disabilities However, does reading
out loud bring anyone’s
reading level down…
they are bored?
Text selection can be
difficult from the I feel as if Math is
teachers, making sure it better-learned hands
is content related. on, to be doing.

The benefits for English How to use read alouds: This is great! Still not
Language Learners Steps: 1) select for sure ho often I would
appropriate text 2) actually be able to use
practice 3) model this in math. But I like
4)engage students the idea, yes.
 5)stop to ask questions
6) have engaging book
discussions 7) make
connections

Shared Reading Like read alouds, More expensive this way

reading but the to have several copies
students have a copy of of one book. If I have a
the text budget I will need to
buy rulers, calculators,
protractors, etc.

Yes, I agree that it is

Great for scaffolding
good for scaffolding

This I see might be a

How will student
challenge for middle
interact with teach
school students. Can
other?
they really be interested
or calm?

Steps: 1) chose Very similar to read

appropriate text 2) alouds.
make reading explicit 3)
how will student access
the text 4) scaffold! 5)
help student use their
new knowledge.

Strategies at work Helps their critical But what about learning

thinking skills content, not just reading
strategies?

DR-TA ask the 3

THIS on the other hand
questions 1) what do I
is a great way to help
think about this 2) why
students solve word
do I think so and 3)how
problems
can I prove it

See the DR-TA guide on

This could be modified
page 88
and helpful with all
 teaching
Mr. Sage’s math
I like this! Activity,
reader’s theatre – using
students are engaged,
poems – student in
would only take a few
groups to share and
classes not very much,
explain the concepts
and the students learn
by TEACHING the
concepts.
Peer tutoring for
electives, another great This would be great for
strategy math too!

Conclusion 2nd to last paragraph Yes! I think showing

talks about not to spend students that reading
too much time, and how for fun is very
you still should show the important. Until this
students reading for semester, it has been a
leisure. while since I’ve read a
book, just for fun. But
I’m going to do my best
to continue to be a
reader. It does have
important. You have to
read MATH word
problems!

But I also agree, this

idea of reading aloud or
shared readings could
take a lot of time and
would have to be
planned precisely to
make sure that the book
can teach a variety of
things. Not just reading
comprehension skills.

Summary: I am still not totally comfortable on how I would use this in my

classroom. I did like Mr. Sage’s idea of using Math poems. I feel as if those
poems, which are shorter and teach different math concepts, would be
valuable to my classroom. I think teaching the students on how to properly
read word problems are a good reading strategy. To be honest, reading
word problems out loud or in a shared reading style would be helpful to
those that are struggling. Overall I do like the idea of reading out loud. But
when you only have 40 minutes to settle a class, get their attention, teach a
lesson, help on homework, and get them read to move doesn’t always allow
a lot of time to read. Perhaps if I was in a middle school that had pods
(something we are learning about in EDUC 412) then I would have more time
to work with a variety of text and make it apart of my everyday math
routine. This idea will for sure be something to keep in the back of my mind.
Not for sure how much time and text there is to realistically use this method
on a regular basis.