Read Aloud Book Routine
The purpose of the read-aloud is to enhance students' oral language skills by
engaging them in collaborative conversations. It also helps to develop comprehension
and vocabulary while reinforcing listening and speaking skills.
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify the title, author, and illustrator.
2. Make and confirm predictions about the story.
3. Describe the pictures in the story.
4. Actively listen to the story to develop comprehension.
5. Answer comprehension questions about the story.
6. Identify the genre (type) of the story.
7. Identify the story elements.
8. Retell the story through responses to questions or looking at the
pictures/illustrations.
To introduce a read-aloud story, use the following routine:
1. Introduce the Read Aloud Story
2. Cover description, Picture Walk, and Predictions
3. Develop Listening Comprehension-Confirm predictions
4. Spotlight the unfamiliar words
5. Comprehension Questions
6. genre
7. Story elements
8. Retell the Story
9. Guided activity: act out the story or draw about the story
The read-aloud story is covered in 3 sessions and it doesn’t have worksheets.
The Instruction will be planned as follows:
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Session One: (First Reading of the read-aloud)
1. Introduce the Read Aloud Story:
a) Read aloud the title and the author’s and illustrator’s names.
b) Guide students to define the roles of the author and illustrator:
✔ The author is the person who writes the words in a book.
✔ The illustrator is the person who draws pictures in a book.
2. Cover description, picture walk, and predictions
Encourage students to make predictions about the story based on the cover.
Make predictions about the story by looking at the story’s illustration.
P.S: Explain that the predictions might be right or wrong. Once you read the story,
you will know whether your predictions are right or wrong. Also, write the students'
predictions on a chart to check them later on together.
3. Develop Listening Comprehension - Confirm prediction
The purpose of the first reading is to figure out what the selection/story is about.
Read for the first time. Model fluent reading. Have students look at the pictures while
reading.
Read the whole story, stop, and ask comprehension questions to check students’
understanding.
Note: During the first reading, comprehension questions should be simple and related
to the main ideas and characters.
4. Spotlight the unfamiliar words
When reading, point to the story pictures to clarify unfamiliar words.
Session two: (Second reading of the read-aloud story)
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5. Comprehension Questions
a) Listen to the story audio.
b) Reread and ask deep comprehension questions.
Choose certain pages and ask questions about them.
(e.g., go to a certain page... and ask about the author’s feelings or ask, “Why
do you think the author wrote the story?”)
6. Genre:
Guide students to identify the genre of the story.
7. Story elements:
Guide students to identify the story elements (characters, events, setting, etc.).
Example: character
The main character is the person or animal the story is mostly about. Give examples
from the story.
Session three: (Respond and Retell)
8. Retell the story:
a) Model retelling the important events in the story.
b) Have students retell the story by looking at the illustrations/pictures and text
clues.
9. Guided activity (Act Out the Story—Draw about the story)
a) Reinforce comprehension through a guided activity (acting out or drawing).
b) Guide students to play the events of the story.
c) Provide necessary materials for role-playing (puppets, pictures, clothes, etc.).
d) Provide white papers for students to draw an important part of the story/what
they mostly liked.