Reading Rockets - Reading Aloud

Grade Levels

Kindergarten, Pre-Kindergarten

Course, Subject

English Language Arts

Related Academic Standards

CC.1.1.PREK.A CC.1.1.PREK.A

Practice appropriate book handling skills.

CC.1.2.PREK.A CC.1.2.PREK.A

With prompting and support, retell key details of text that support a provided main idea.

CC.1.2.PREK.B CC.1.2.PREK.B

Answer questions about a text.

CC.1.2.PREK.C CC.1.2.PREK.C

With prompting and support, make connections between information in a text and personal experiences.

CC.1.2.PREK.E CC.1.2.PREK.E

Identify the front cover, back cover and title page of a book.

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Big Ideas

Critical thinkers actively and skillfully interpret, analyze, evaluate, and synthesize information.

Effective readers use appropriate strategies to construct meaning.
Concepts

Book Handling

Main Idea

Text Analysis

Text Structure
Competencies

Demonstrate proper book orientation. Identify the title of a book. Practice tracking from top to bottom and left to right with scaffolding.

Identify the front cover, back cover and title page of a book.

With prompting and support, answer questions about key details in a text

With prompting and support, make a connection between information in a text and personal experiences

With prompting and support, retell key details that support a provided main idea

Description

This resource discusses the importantance of dialogic reading, its importance to children's learning, key features, questionning and much more.

Rationale

Reading aloud is one of the most important things parents and teachers can do with children. Reading aloud builds many important foundational skills, introduces vocabulary, provides a model of fluent, expressive reading, and helps children recognize what reading for pleasure is all about.

URL or Resource

http://www.readingrockets.org/atoz/reading_aloud/

Content Provider or Additional Information

Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets - Reading Aloud