Reflection 4

Reflection 3

1. What was the chapter about?

2. What does this chapter tell you about teaching students

3. Can this chapter be applied in your content area?

This article focuses on the need for read alouds in classrooms of all age ranges. Read alouds are designed to promote student community as well as literacy learning. Many students, especially with lower reading levels, struggle so much with the actual decoding of the text that they are not able to take the time to comprehend what they are reading and fully immerse themselves in the imagery of the text. Along with fostering creativity and imagination, read alouds allow the teacher to model the correct use of syntax and grammar, enabling students to feel more comfortable with their own abilities to read aloud. A quote that I particularly enjoyed form this reading comes from Joseph Bruchac, “You begin to sing a song and when they know it, they begin to sing it with you.” This statement can be applied to all disciplines of education with no exception to reading. Once students feel comfortable with what is expected of them they are more willing to confidently participate in activities. 

I believe that read alouds should be implemented in the foreign language classroom as well as other common core subjects. Pronunciation and syntax are essential in the acquisition of a second language, two things that can be modeled and learned through the process of the read aloud.