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I had a mentor last year during my internship who conducted his class as follows: We did a warm up, getting students thinking about the upcoming topic; making connections and asking questions before beginning the reading from the basal reader (as instructed in the county curriculum...Baltimore). Then we proceeded to read aloud...the teacher read a few sentences from the text, stopped occasionally to ask a few comprehension questions and also to make sure students fingers were "in the text", as he liked to say. We didn't ask students to read aloud. We read the text as students supposedly followed along with their fingers in the text. When we caught someone not following along, he's stop and point it out and kind of embarrass them a bit.

Is this type of whole class instruction a good technique, especially since there isn't time to do small groups in the beginning? Or is this clearly not a good idea b/c students aren't active....nor is the instruction individualized? How can we ...See More
former baltimore city teacher I don't know about elementary school, but even in high school, teacher read alouds were stressed because so many of the kids are behind grade level. But the kids were also supposed to read independently with a focus question in mind such as characterization, etc. while the teacher walked around the room and conferred individually with them. This wa...See More
Mar 6, 2010


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