AVReading Newsletter November: Student Read Alounds
I must admit that my thinking around having students read aloud for me has evolved over time. Asking some of these vulnerable students to read aloud can truly be an intimidating experience for them, and so for the longest time, I have been hesitant to have them do so. I also know that for older students, gathering data from their read alouds can be misleading. In other words, in some cases their oral reading skills are substantially lower their silent reading skills. However, my recent studies of reading intervention and assessments has changed my thinking. As I have begun to learn more about reading difficulties, I realized that to truly get a “read” on what the problem might be, we really need to hear the student read aloud. Let me back up. Reading research indicates that there are five important pillars of reading instruction that hold up the roof of good reading practices: phonemic awareness, phonics,...