Why Read Aloud Still Matters in Grades 3-5

Episode 129- Why Read Aloud Still Matters in Grades 3–5 Classrooms
In this episode we talk about:
Why read alouds still matter in your Upper Elementary literacy classrooms.
How Read alouds support learning science,
How Read alouds support The Science of Teaching Reading.
Choose texts that build knowledge
Pause for thinking, not just predictions
Plan 2–3 intentional thinking stops instead of a lot of questions
“How might my read aloud time become one of the most instructionally powerful parts of the day?”
Schema Theory in Reading by Shuying An
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