Chapter 10

I believe in reading aloud to all students. I actually don't remember too many of my teachers reading aloud to us when I was in school, although there were some and I guess now that I think about it, it was very enjoyable. I have always enjoyed reading to children. When my boys were little, I read aloud to them very often and then when they got to school, I would read to their class. The book points out that if children are not read to, they in turn will probably not read to their children. The book calls it "seed money" if we read aloud to our students and make it enjoyable to them, they will read as parents to their own children. We must read with emotion and be dramatic when doing read alouds. As this chapter points out, researchers have learned that reading aloud to children develops an interest in reading along with language development, building vocabulary, developing listening comprehension, understanding how language is used in books and learning how a story works. I will definitely read aloud to my students when I have my own classroom.