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read aloud
By tia

i'm not sure what "charting" means...

i do 3 things while reading aloud:

1) stop for "literary devices"--foreshadowing, simile/metaphor/peronification, parallelism, onomatopoeia, alliteration/assnce.....
and kids raise their hand to tell us what was used and where. "picked a perfectly good pear is alliteration" and they get a treat from the treat jar if right

2) to do a "think aloud"--where i say "I'm thinking that I don't remember who Soledad was, maybe if I keep reading, the author will remind me.....or perhaps I'll flip back to see her name mentioned earlier to see what it

says. Good readers make mistakes and then fix them--I am using 2 of those fix-up strategies right now."

3) I'll ask students for predictions (reminding them we predict using information we know about the characters and real world information. or ask them WHY a character did something or other reading comprehension question

i don't always do all 3 each time i read--depends on what comes up in the reading---sometimes when i do literary devices, and depending on the book, there are a lot of lit devices---kids raise their hands and i just keep reading so i don't stop every paragraph.