Read-Aloud Strategy

For strategy section IV, I selected the strategy read-aloud plus because I believed I could successfully incorporate this strategy into my lessons in order to fully benefit Sophia. I chose to implement this strategy because it would provide Sophia with the most beneficial learning experience possible. This strategy is important because it incorporates the modeling of fluent expressive reading of English text with techniques for clarifying vocabulary, while periodically checking for understanding and providing activating knowledge to help make connections between text and personally experiences. This strategy involves the teacher reading the text aloud to the student while providing periodic paraphrasing and other extensions.

3. Before implementing this strategy into my lesson, I noticed that when …show more content…
After implementing this strategy into my lessons with Sophia, I found that she did benefit from the use of this strategy and that this strategy could also be easily implemented to any of my lessons I teach Sophia. I found that when I read a portion of the text to her, she was more engaged and wanted to participate in the lesson. If I had her read the whole passage herself, she would become overwhelmed and frustrated and loose focus in the lesson. Since Sophia is in the advanced phases of the program, it is important that she masters fluency while reading. I wanted to provide her while ample opportunity to practice reading, but also have moments where she would listen to me read a portion of the passage instead, to fully hear how fluent reading sounds like. When I used this strategy I discovered that I could use more than one short story in my lesson. Because I was able to do this, I was able to bring more topics in the lesson, such as introducing comparing and contrasting using a Venn diagram. If I did not use this strategy, which allowed me to read portions of the text to Sophia, we would not have been able to cover so many different stories and elaborate on