Try an attention getting strategy your CT uses.
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WHAT: Over the past six weeks, I have seen and done several read alouds in every subject. Since I am interning in a kindergarten classroom, almost every lesson has a read aloud at the beginning to introduce the lesson or to allow the students to connect the book to the lesson my CT or I am teaching them. When watching my CT perform this task, I noticed she begins by talking about the book she is going to read and relates it to something the students are familiar with. Then, as she is reading the book, she stops several times to either ask the students a question or to explain what an unfamiliar word means. I've also noticed that if a student is talking she will stop reading until everyone is quiet. When she is finished reading, she talks a little about what happened in the book and then relates it to the assignment the students are about to complete. This week, I decided to plan and implement a read aloud during one of my observations. For my lesson, I taught the class about tasting hot and cold items. In order to help the students make a connections with tasting hot and cold items and a read aloud, I decided to read the book "Goldie Locks and the Three Bears." Before I began, I asked the class to sit on the carpet, with their hands in their laps so they wouldn't get distracted. Then I showed the class the book cover and asked who has ever heard of the book. Almost every student raised their hand. Before I read the bok to the students, I read it the night before so I could plan where I wanted to stop at in the book and ask questions like my CT does. One place I stopped was when Goldie locks was eating from the three bowl of porridge. I did this because I wanted the students to remember this point in the book for when I taught my lesson the next day on hot and cold. By reading this book to the students, I was able to introduce the concept of hot and cold. I was also able to referece the book and certain parts where Goldie Locks talks about the porridge being to hot during my lesson. This seemed to help the students because they were able to connect my lesson to what they already knew from the book.
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