Interactive Read Aloud Texts, Assessments, and MORE!
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YES! we use interactive read aloud text in our kindergarten classroom with interactive writing, vocabulary work, and assessments TOO! Here’s how!
Interactive Read Aloud
Research shows that the most effective read-alouds are those in which children are actively participating in listening. This means they are asking and answering questions and making meaning rather than passively listening (or playing beauty parlor) .
We use our Guiding Readers units to elevate the conversation surrounding books.
Research also states that merely reading and talking about a book is not sufficient. Students must frequently engage in comprehension activities that asked them to analyze the text. We analyze the text when we are making predictions, inferences, connections, and describing characters.
Can you do this in kindergarten?
Yes! We can do this in kindergarten and first grade. Teachers start by modeling and by using REAL books! Books we know! Books we love! After a few weeks of modeling and scaffolding the instruction, the students start to carry the thinking load. Soon… you just have to get out of their way!
These photos are from my sweet friend, Cheryl, who blogs over at Primary Graffiti. They were completed by her first grade students.
Vocabulary
Research also supports the practice of reading a book repeatedly, discussing vocabulary, and encouraging the students to use the vocabulary within the text and to use the vocabulary outside of
the context of the text.
the context of the text.
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Assessment
If you are familiar with our Guiding Readers series you know we have written comprehension questions that you can use as an exit ticket.
ESGI
Now we have teamed up with ESGI to put all of these book assessments into their system. WOO HOO!
If you already have ESGI you can find all of the ones I have entered so far by going here!
If you don’t have ESGI, never fear! You can get 2 months for FREE! This will give you a chance to try out these assessments plus the other CCSS assessments I have created for ESGI.
Just click on the box below!
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Deedee Wills
My teaching career allowed me to experience teaching in different classroom environments and grades. My heart belongs to early childhood education. My job is to make teaching FUN, ENGAGING, and EASIER. Welcome!
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Do you have assessments on ESGI to check for parts of a book?
I didn't, but I believe there is one in there. If not, it would take just a minute to create 🙂
Is that what your kids are writing like at the beginning of the year? Woah, I have some kiddos that can't even hold a pencil or write their name. Jaw dropped. LOL
No! Don't worry! Mine come in the same way often times. This is from a first grade classroom.
Are you going to put your Guiding Kinder Math Unit assessments on ESGI?
Pam, I have not done them, but I might be able to after I finish the GR series.
Do you have any units using the Readers Workshop model?
Yes! I use more of a close reading model. It is called Guiding Readers and the link is on my side bar on the right hand side of my blog.
Are the ESGI assessments ready for Guiding Readers October?
I would love to be able to use some of your guiding readers lesson plans, but I do have a district curriculum that I am accountable for. I would love to be able to try some of your guiding readers lesson plans without purchasing a months worth. Will you ever be selling them with one weeks worth of lessons?
No problem! If you go to my Teachers Pay Teachers store and filter the resources by “free” you will see a curriculum guide. We have a sample unit there that you can try out. 🙂