Do you know the benefits of TO, WITH, and BY?
Posted on September 5, 2011 by Melissa Edwards in Literacy.
Tags: balanced literacy, guided reading, independent reading, Reading, shared reading, strategies
Do you know the benefits of reading TO children?
Read Alouds can ...
- help to internalize sentence structure and ”book language” concepts,
- provide motivation to learn to read,
- develop a sense of story structure,
- encourage vocabulary concepts,
- build prediction skills, and
- provide a proficient reader model
How can you use material from Big Universe Learning for Read Alouds?
Do you know the benefits of reading WITH children?
Shared Reading can …
- develop comprehension skills
- reinforce language and rhyming
- focus on plot and story elements
- develop and review high frequency words as well as known phonics
- provide teacher models for language use
- develop print concepts
- encourage early reading strategies
- promote the use of good reader strategies
- support comprehension
How can you use material from Big Universe Learning for Shared Reading?
Do you know the benefits of reading BY children?
Guided Reading and Independent Reading can ….
- reinforce reading strategies in context of story
- promote children’s effective use of cueing sources, prediction, and monitoring
- reinforce the development of print concepts and early reading strategies
- encourage student self-correction
- provide practice in applying reading strategies
- build self-confidence, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension strategies
How can you use material from Big Universe Learning for Guided Reading and Independent Reading?
Balanced Literacy involves reading TO children, WITH children, and BY children!
How timely for this to come in! Our children have just announced that their little ones will definately NOT be in public schools. They will teach them,themselves. As a retired teacher, I love hearing this because I know what they are looking for in the big city.