We are a month away from World Read Aloud Day. World Read Aloud Day happens on February 7, 2024 this year. You can read more about this day and begin to plan for it here. While it's great to have a day devoted to read alouds, we should be making read alouds a priority every day. I love this article that talks about 10 recommendations for teachers to build knowledge. Number 4 on the list says that we should give read alouds a central role. Personally, I would move that one up to the number one spot, but I think I can live with being 4th on the list. The question is...are we giving read alouds a central role? Are your students hearing you read aloud to them every day or at least most days of the week? I do worry that the pandemic changed how we all did read alouds with so many being recorded and able to be viewed on screen. I admit that I even became more comfortable recording myself and sending out read alouds to everyone. It is very easy now to search up many titles and find a recording on YouTube. But our students need to hear the adults in their school reading directly to them with actual books in hand, not on screens. And we shouldn't wait until special days like World Read Aloud Day. The image above is a simple, important reminder of why we need to be reading aloud to our kids as much as we can. I need to get better about doing more read alouds. I have let me calendar and meeting schedule take over and I want to plan to do more read alouds in your classrooms. Please reach out if you want me to come in and read to your class. It can be a picture book that you are using as part of a lesson or I also would love to read a chapter from the books that some of our upper elementary students are listening to. It doesn't take long to read a book, and the benefits of this instructional practice are so worth it! Happy reading! Forgot to add this article in here as well...all about making sure that read alouds don't get lost in the science of reading focus. Some new picture books that I have in my office if you are looking for a new read aloud...
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