I found this information in an old email I saved from a listserve that I belonged to a couple of years ago. If you need to defend the practice of reading aloud to older students, it lists some great reasons for doing so. Right now, I'm reading aloud Gary Paulsen's How Angel Peterson Got His Name to my 7th grade students, and they¹re loving it!
Sherri It is considered a best practice, Frank Serafini and Cyndi Giorgis have written a very good book titled "Reading Aloud and Beyond, Fostering the Intellectual Life with Older Readers". They site another great book titled "Becoming a Nation of Readers" that outlines specifics for making reading aloud part of the instructional framework. Serafini and Giorgis offer 13 researched-based reasons for reading aloud with each supported with references and appear as follows: 1. reading aloud increases test scores 2. reading aloud introduces readers to new titles, authors, illustrators, genres, and text structures 3. reading aloud builds a sense of community 4. reading aloud provides opportunities for extended discussions 5. reading aloud with older readers is pleasurable 6. reading aloud connects readers with content area subjects 7. reading aloud demonstrates response strategies 8. reading aloud increases readers' interest in independent reading 9. reading aloud provides demonstrations of oral reading and fluency 10. reading aloud provides access to books that readers may not experience on their own 11. reading aloud helps readers understand the connection between reading in school and reading in life 12. reading aloud provides demonstrations of quality writing 13. reading aloud supports readers development _______________________________________________ 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
