Reading aloud to students shouldn't be considered down time. I've heard more than one presenter say that students of any age should be read to daily! After all, fluency is one of the five key components of reading. Some of them do not have many models for fluency.
In addition, when students hear someone else read aloud (whether in person or on tape), they can practice their comprehension skills; decoding the words often hampers their comprehension when they read silently alone. Susie ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more. _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
