Week 11-Assignment #2.

1) Read the article, Seven Literacy Strategies that Work.

2) Choose one from the seven strategies mentioned in the article. Read Aloud Strategy.


3) Explain how this strategy can be employed in the classroom. Read alouds can be employed in the classroom through demonstrations that would allow kids and teachers alike to test how well a child can read.What a better way to gauge a child's reading ability other than to have them read out loud and allow the teacher to hear for him/herself from the horses mouth on just how well or not well a student can pronounce words and annunciate.


4) Find a scholarly article to support your rationale. Share a lesson plan (research one online) that use this particular strategy to enhance students' learning in reading.

http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr213.shtml 

Read-Aloud Lesson Plan

Title: The Giving Tree

Author: Shel Silverstein

Illustrator: Shel Silverstein

Suggested Grade Level: First       

Strategy:  Using the sequence of events to aid in retelling

Submitted by: First Grade

School: Carver Elementary School

Planning	This is an excellent fictional story to help integrate science and language arts.  It provides a context for teaching children to summarize a story because it has a very clear beginning, middle, and end.
Before Reading: Prepare	Tell the students you are going to read them a book entitled The Giving Tree.  Remind students to pay attention to the sequence of events in order to help them summarize the story.  Discuss with students that all stories have a beginning,  a middle, and an ending.  In the beginning, we usually learn about the characters and the setting.  One of the characters usually has a problem in the middle of the story.   The problem is usually solved at the end of the story.   Remind students to listen for these parts of the story.
During Reading: Guide	Stop after the 24th page and ask the following questions:  - Who can tell me about the characters? Discuss how the author uses a tree as a character. - Where is the setting? - Do we know the problem? Tell the students to think the about the middle of the story as you continue to read.  After reading the 48th page, ask the students if they can identify the problem. Finish reading the story and ask the following questions: - How did the story end? - How was the problem solved? - How did the characters feel?
After Reading: Extend	The class will work together to create a story map showing the beginning, middle, and end.  Partners will use the story map to summarize the story orally.
Vocabulary Lesson	The teacher will draw a tree and will guide students in labeling the parts of the tree (leaves, branches, trunk, stump).