Teacher and Student Actions during an Interactive read aloud

What do Teachers and Students do during Interactive Read Aloud?

What do teachers do?

What do students do?

​ Read wonderful literature, chosen because of its rich qualities, aloud. Expose students to a variety of genres including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and editorials. Model appropriate forms of discussion. Model comprehension strategies and ways of thinking about books by thinking aloud. Pause at strategic stopping points and listen to encourage student response. Engage students in thinking and growing theories about characters, themes, and deeper structures of text. Provide opportunities for students to turn and talk with a partner. Hold students accountable to the text and to each other. Do the reading in order to enable students to be the meaning-makers. Coach the conversation, but back out of it. Attempt to avoid conversation starters; instead, listen in on students’ conversations and use this formative assessment data to plan and reinforce teaching points.

Listen to the teacher as she/he reads texts that are both compelling and complex. Listen, think, and talk to develop metacognitive strategies. Recognize, appreciate, and become passionate readers of quality literature. Think deeply about the text and the comments of others in the group. Communicate that deep thinking through oral and written language. Listen to other people’s ideas and feelings, and respond and react to what they say. View themselves as members of a community of readers and thinkers. Grow theories and ideas about the literature that is read to them by participating in thoughtful discussions with teachers and peers. Support their ideas and thinking with evidence from the text. ​ ​