Read & Write It Out Loud! Guided Oral Literacy Strategies

by Polette, Keith

• ISBN13: 9780205405657
• ISBN10: 0205405657
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-01
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This book presents fresh, innovative, practical, classroom-tested "best practices" to help students proactively develop stronger literacy skills through dynamic listening, reciting, reading, and writing.Author Keith Polette provides teachers with the precise tools they need to help their students develop stronger literacy skills. Unlike other texts, this book articulates the benefits and the processes that teachers need to help their students make important gains in reading, reciting, and writing. The mix of theory and practice in this book provides teachers with the why and how of teaching literacy. It emphasizes the important connection of student recitation (or reading aloud) and writing. Polette demonstrates that reciting, reading, and writing are intimately linked and shows that by helping students improve in one area they can improve in the others.Read and Write It Out Loudpresents a lively narrative, clear organization, exceptional pedagogy and special features that bring reading aloud to life in your classroom.

Author Biography

Keith Polette is an associate professor of English and the Director of the English Education Program at the University of Texas-El Paso.

Table of Contents

Preface	vi
CHAPTER 1 Reading Aloud to Children: Reasons and Resources	1	(9)
A MODEL OF READING	2	(1)
REASONS TO READ ALOUD TO CHILDREN	3	(3)
WHAT TO KNOW: THREE IDEAS TO CONSIDER BEFORE READING ALOUD	6	(1)
READ-ALOUD RESOURCES	7	(3)
CHAPTER 2 Readying Children to Read Aloud: Reasons and Preparations	10	(13)
REASONS TO TEACH CHILDREN TO READ ALOUD	11	(3)
PREPARING CHILDREN TO READ ALOUD	14	(5)
Breath	15	(1)
Posture	16	(1)
Eye Contact	16	(1)
Gesture	17	(1)
Vocal Variety	17	(2)
APPLYING VOCAL VARIETY SKILLS TO TEXTS	19	(1)
READING RESPONSE GROUPS	20	(1)
EVALUATION	21	(1)
ORAL READING REMINDER	21	(1)
ORAL READING EVALUATION FORM	22	(1)
CHAPTER 3 How to Read Aloud to Children: Techniques That Promote Active and Critical Listening	23	(17)
TOUR GUIDE	24	(1)
THINK ALOUD	25	(1)
PICTURE THIS	26	(1)
RICH LANGUAGE	27	(1)
PUNCTUATION POWER	28	(1)
FOCUSED ANTICIPATION GUIDES	29	(4)
F.I.R.E.	33	(2)
K-THIK CHART	35	(2)
SELECTIVE READING	37	(1)
CALL AND RESPONSE	38	(1)
CONCERT READING	39	(1)
CHAPTER 4 Teaching Children to Read Aloud: Strategies That Develop Expressive and Interpretative Reading Skills	40	(12)
CHORAL READING	41	(2)
READING "WRONG"	43	(1)
GROUP AND SOLO READING	43	(2)
BUDDY READING	45	(1)
INDIVIDUAL READING	46	(1)
READ IT AGAIN	46	(1)
READER'S THEATRE	47	(5)
CHAPTER 5 Writing to Read Aloud: Reasons and Ways to Write for the Expressive Voice	52	(53)
REASONS TO WRITE FOR THE EXPRESSIVE VOICE	53	(2)
LITERATURE-BASED WRITING: A Springboard to Read-Aloud Scripts	55	(1)
THE WRITING PROCESS: Procedures to Produce Products to Read Aloud	56	(2)
FIVE RECURSIVE STEPS IN THE WRITING PROCESS	58	(1)
PATTERNS	58	(8)
An Alliterative Sentence Slotting Activity	58	(2)
An Interrogative Sentence Slotting Activity	60	(2)
A Research Pattern Poem	62	(2)
A Contrast Pattern	64	(1)
A Research Pattern	65	(1)
PROSE	66	(16)
A Fictional Letter	66	(3)
A Simulated Journal Entry	69	(3)
A Descriptive Paragraph	72	(2)
A Personal Narrative Paragraph	74	(3)
A Persuasive Paragraph	77	(3)
A Contrast Paragraph	80	(2)
POETRY	82	(12)
A Poem about Dream-Time	82	(3)
A Memory Poem	85	(3)
A Poem about Patterns	88	(2)
An "I Hear..." Poem	90	(4)
EVALUATION FORMS	94	(5)
WRITER'S TOOLS	99	(4)
REVISION GUIDELINES	103	(2)
CHAPTER 6 Ready to Read Aloud Scripts: Poetry, Prose, and Drama	105	(25)
POETRY	106	(11)
What Is Poetry?	106	(1)
Two Chants	106	(1)
Going Inside: Two Poems	107	(1)
Declarations and Truths	107	(1)
I'm Sony, But Not Really: Three Poems	108	(1)
Opening the Door	109	(1)
Two Dream Poems	109	(1)
Poems That Wonder "If..."	110	(1)
Letter Poem	111	(1)
Bean Magic	111	(1)
Rapunzel's Lament	112	(1)
Troll Toll	112	(1)
Letters-Colors-Emotions	113	(1)
In Defense of Late Homework	113	(1)
An Extended Metaphor: How Many Ways Can You Imagine a Pencil?	114	(2)
Questions	116	(1)
PROSE	117	(4)
A Kitchen Too Small	117	(2)
The Day of the 'Dozer	119	(1)
The Last Breeze of Summer	120	(1)
DRAMA	121	(9)
Snake Loses His Dinner: An Interactive Reader's Theatre Script	121	(1)
The Travelers and the Bear: Prose Version	122	(1)
The Travelers and the Bear: A Reader's Theatre Script	123	(1)
A Rain Story: A Group and Solo Script	123	(2)
A Mouse and Sea Story/Un Cuento Del Ratón y Mar	125	(3)
The Further Adventures of Tom Sawyer: An Interactive Reader's Theatre Script	128	(2)
Works Cited	130	(3)
Index	133