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When you bring in a good book to read to your students, they will be captivated by you reading it to them. All of the teaching strategies mentioned in our course textbooks including character voice changing and intonation help with keeping their attention on the story instead of each other while they sit on the carpet. Fifth graders can be rambunctious, you know. After reading some passages to them first in order to help them enter the story, I ask openly who wants to help me read. My collaborating teacher highly discourages blurting out answers instead of raising hands, so the students raise their hands and I set up the next 5 readers. (#FEAP2b) The students either read a single poem or a page in the book. The whole idea of reading out loud for a short amount of time helps everyone to model each others language skills through combined practice. Hooking the students into the reading activity with a listening task is also a useful tool to assess children's comprehension of the story. (#FEAP2a) I look for themed vocabulary words to have children identify, which help makes listening to every word meaningful for them.
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