Read Aloud
Excellence in Education: Read Aloud While virtual teaching provides many challenges, read-aloud is one strategy that does not require significant changes to be effective. Read aloud is a strategy that should be used in all classes and all grades. The first, and most important, step to read aloud is to pre-read and plan where and when you will stop, what questions you will ask and how will ask students to participate and respond. Questions should be open-ended. In content-area classes, questions should also encourage our scholars to think like historians, scientists or mathematicians. Student responses can come in many forms. For all but our youngest children, students should be encouraged to write their responses and reactions during the reading and before sharing. Encouraging our scholars to participate is where online learning is different than in-person learning. Some possibilities: Have scholars use the raise hand feature in Zoom. For teachers this is easier to notice than emo