Planning a Read-Aloud Event

Strategies to Model and Share With Parents

Fluency Strategies

Make reading fun by changing your vocal inflections; reading quickly and slowly, loudly and softly, to match the story; acting out characters, etc.

Use your finger to point to words as you read.

When reading aloud, model reading effortlessly and with expression—show excitement, disappointment, sadness.

Have copies of a short text (preferably from your read-aloud book) to share with parents and children. Print the same text on a chart or the board. Model reading the text correctly, marking it as you read (underlining—usually done with a slight scoop, as if drawing a spoon to hold the phrase). Re-read the passage emphasizing how the phrases can make it easier to read smoothly and with feeling. Ask parents and children to read the passage with you (choral reading).

Read the passage aloud again, then ask parents and children to read the passage aloud to you (echo reading).

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