How To Read Aloud

In Dr. Cook’s Materials for Teaching Reading, we learned effective ways to give a read aloud. In many of my language arts lessons, I had to read aloud a text to the student. Also, every day after lunch I would read a chapter from a Ready Freddy book to the students. We learned to introduce the book to the students and to mention the title, author, and illustrator. When I would do a read a loud in my language arts lesson I would always do this, the students were very interested to hear this about the book we were reading. One aspect of a read aloud that Dr. Cook taught us was to read with expression and emotion. If a character was happy, sad, scared, or excited, I would always reflect that in my voice. The students loved when I would read with expression. Another aspect we learned was to be familiar with the story. When I did a read aloud in my lesson, I always made sure that I read the story before I read it to the students. That way I could anticipate any questions that they may have. One last tip we learned …show more content…
Butler’s Teaching Concepts of Math was incredibly helpful going into internship. Since I was in first grade, I had the math skills I needed to teach math, but Dr. Butler’s class helped me learn the strategies I would need to use. One strategy we learned in Dr. Butler’s class was using base-ten pieces. We learned about flats, longs, and units. In first grade, they only used longs and units, but called them 10s and 1s. When working on addition and subtracting, drawing base-ten pieces was a great way to get students to visualize the problem. They could cross them off or add more. Learning about base-ten pieces in Dr. Butler’s class helped to prepare me for internship. If I were going to approach a simple addition or subtraction problem, I would just solve it mentally because I already have those skills, but in first grade they are learning those skills. Having a strategy like using base-ten pieces was good content to know when teaching first graders