What's the Text Message?
Modeling Reading Strategies through Shared Reading Activities (Virtual Tour)
Stage of Literacy Development:
Stage 1: Beginning LiteracyStage 2: Consolidation / Fluency
Ages:
5-10
Grade Range:
1st 2nd 3rd 4thFood Groups:
Primary: Reading Fluency & Expression, Reading Comprehension Strategies Secondary: Text Structures & Genres, Classroom Organization & Time Management
Transcript
This is my favorite time of the day when we get to sit down together and read a story. There are different ways that we will read together. One being a modeled read-aloud where I am reading and the students are answering questions, making connections, inferring, and this is when we create our anchor charts based on those strategies that end up going up on the reading board. We also do shared reading where the students will participate in reading together and choral reading as well as reading where they take turns to develop their fluency and expression in their reading voices. A read aloud that we have done recently is The Old Woman Who Named Things by Cynthia Rylant. During this read aloud we talked about inferring the authors message. Students were very excited to infer what it was that Cynthia Rylant was trying to teach us. We created a chart that was talking about what the text's message was and this was something that students were very excited about because at the 3rd and 4th grade, students are text messaging. They really enjoy that we had made the text message on the little cellphone. We decided on the authors message by each of the students coming up with their idea and then we did a vote on which authors message was the most true to the story. After that vote, the students decided for The Old Woman Who Named Things, it was that there is someone out there for everyone to love.
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Activity Objective
The goal of What's the Text Message?: Modeling Reading Strategies through Shared Reading Activities (Virtual Tour) is to demonstrate different reading and comprehension strategies while doing a read aloud. Through discussion the students will co-construct anchor charts with the teacher on different reading strategies. These anchor charts are posted on the Reading Wall for future reference during independent study.
Quick Tips
Additional Comments:
- Emphasis can be placed on unique vocabulary specific to the book and added to the class Expanding Vocabulary Wall. - Use Sticky Notes as thought bubbles on printed out book characters. Ask students to help fill them in.
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