In a 2nd grade classroom that I observed dialogic reading was used in a lesson to promote oral language development. Dialogic reading is an interactive picture book reading activity and the teacher uses an engaging picture book to share with the class (Cooter and Reutzel, 2015, p. 63). The book that the teacher chose to read was “Click Clack Boo’. All of the students were sitting around the teacher on the rug while she sat in a chair where they could all see her. With Halloween soon approaching the students were excited to read the book after the teacher took them through a picture walk of the book. The teacher began to read the book by stating the title of the book first along with the names of the authors. The teacher changed her tone and
