Read alouds are very effective in students learning new words and comprehending the text. Read alouds help engage students in the text and generate more questions prior to the text. As a future teacher, I think read alouds are very important because it brings the text to life for the students. From the reading, teachers have different read aloud styles which are interactional, performance, and just reading. Interactional and performance read aloud styles are more effective in vocabulary acquistion and comprehension.
I can see how interactional and performance read aloud styles are more effective because they actually get students involved in the reading and they make the students think more critically on the story. Does an effective teacher use a read aloud on every narrative text he or she reads? The just-reading style does not allow the students to think outside the box or interact with other students' feedback to the story. As the students get older, they might comprehend the text better by just reading to themselves. I know that the just reading style would be a lot easier for a teacher to perform but to increase the students vocabulary and comprehension skills a teacher must make reading fun and engaging.
Even though interactional and performance styles are more effective, theses styles might not help some students that are on a different cognitive level. So the teacher needs to be prepared to used a different strategy or text for certain students. So can the teacher use read aloud styles for expository text or does it work best only for narrative text? Using the read aloud styles, narrative text seem to be easier to teach because the text is more informative and entertaining to the student. I gained from the reading that getting the students involved and engaged in the narrative text will broaden students' vocabulary and comprehension.
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