Interactive+Read+Aloud



My first interactive read aloud was given on February 20, 2013 in a kindergarten classroom at Cambridge Elementary School. When preparing for this lesson I had no idea how to even write a lesson and it was very confusing for me and after writing a script about what I was going to ask the students a discovered something very important. As I was teaching my students about a strategy and then reading this book I found myself not even using the script that I taped to the back of the book. As I reflect back to this lesson, I realize how much I have grown as an educator because now when looking for children's literature I know what to look for and what book would be good to read to my students. Although this was my first lesson I believe that it made me a better educator because I was able to learn from my mistakes and that is what made my lessons for successful for myself but also for my students. During this lesson, I had trouble with my teacher talk, which as my professor said, this is something that current teachers have trouble with everyday but I believe that since this lesson I have become a teacher. When addressing my students at the carpet I used to say, "okay guys now I want to pay attention to the different rhyming words in the book," but now I would rephrase that by saying: "Boy's and girls, I want you to pay attention to the rhyming words in this text because as readers it is important to understand what makes a rhyming word." Through this reflection, I am starting to build great strategies that will help me develop into an effective teacher when I have my own classroom.



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