Welcome to Grade Four- Read Aloud
During the first few days of school, grade four students will discuss their ideas about what read aloud is all about. Here are some of those ideas:
What is Read Aloud?
Read aloud is a time of learning when the teacher reads a book. The students listen, look, and have conversations with one another about the book.
What do we do during Read Aloud?
Build upon each others ideas, listen to the story, make pictures in our minds, discuss our ideas with the whole class or with our partners.
What should Read Aloud look like?
Students form a large circle where everyone can make eye contact.
During the month of September, students will continue to work on these skills in class, in order to utilize our read aloud time in the most effective way. Students were given a rubric that outlines what is expected to take place during our read aloud period. At the close of each lesson in September, we will evaluate our discussion as a class according to the rubric.
Grade Four opens up Read Aloud with:
- Mentor Read Aloud Texts- Ish by Peter H. Reynolds, The Curious Garden by Peter Brown and The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
· - Short story texts- Moving to Winter, The Save, The Tree House, The Guardian Angel, andWings.
· - Complex texts- Your Name in Gold and Always a Fight
· - Finally, at the close of the month we will begin our first realistic fiction novel, Fourth Grade Rats.
Vocabulary work is also a big part of the read aloud. Students will be expected to learn a new set of words per chapter. These words will be expected to be applied in discussion as well as in various assignments. At the end of each week, students knowledge of these new words will be assessed with a quiz.
Here is a link to the vocabulary we will be working with while reading Fourth Grade Rats:
Fourth Grade Rats Vocabulary
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