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5 Essential Tips for Teaching with Read Alouds

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Read alouds can do so much for our students. They can listen to fluent reading, learn about new authors, hear our thinking about vocabulary, character development, plot, and more. So…

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With interactive read alouds, we can model important comprehension skills using the Think Aloud approach. By carefully selecting texts, we can "double dip" instruction.

5 Ways to Use Interactive Read Alouds for Effective Skill Modeling

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Reading aloud to your students is a classroom tradition. If you ask students what they remember most about their time with Mrs. So and So, chances are pretty good that…

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Every reading specialist needs to know what's available to make the best match to the readers they're serving, and in order to make the best choice, you have to know what's available. in this post, ten titles are shared with ideas on how to use them.

10 Amazing Picture Books for the Elementary Classroom

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Every teacher needs to know picture books and authors to make the best match to the readers they're serving. Knowing picture books also helps when you're planning lessons. Today, I'd…

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