December Share

The focus of this month's literacy share was incorporating storytelling into writers workshop and interactive read alouds.

Storytelling: Storytelling is a great way to get kids thinking about stories to write during writer’s workshop. Teacher styles of how storytelling is conducted in their classroom.
· Sequencing cards (start simple and expand to elaborate)
· Turn and talk process- tell a story to a partner and then switch
Listener: listens throughout the whole story and then comments to one or two things after
the teller is completed. Teller: tells a story.
· Two circles- outer circle tells a story and the inner circle listens. Then the outer circle slides
in one direction and tells the story again. This helps with students adding more details.

Interactive Read Aloud: Is interactive read aloud the same as read aloud? In both the reader and listener are actively engaged.

Interactive Read Aloud and how it works
*Can give a question at the start of read aloud- not always done this way
1. Text geared towards a specific skill
2. Stop at a specific time
3. Turn and talk
4. Share quickly- a couple quick comments (keep to the point and on task)
5. Teacher continues reading
6. Repeat steps 2-6 until end of lesson

Purpose of Interactive Read Aloud is to have more of a student lead discussion as oppose to the teacher always speaking. Sharing together as oppose to one or two students giving an answer.