• READ ALOUD TIPSread 2

    • Select a book that you like and practice reading it.
    • Show the cover, introduce the author and illustrator.
    • Ensure your audience sits close to you and close to each other.
    • Enjoy yourself! Throw yourself into it, so you are never boring!
    • Welcome everyone with roving eye-contact on the first few lines.
    • Be expressive and have fun. Feel the emotions.
    • Don't rush, speak slowly and loud enough for everyone to hear.
    • Engage the listener through, "Repeat after me," gestures and other physical movement.
    • Ask questions as you read, "What do you think will happen next?"
    • Make the phrases into beautiful, lilting, up and down music.
    • Change vocally; high/low, loud/soft, fast/slow.
    • Speak the verbs with animation, even though they look boring.
    • Fall in love with the pause.
    • Say goodbye to everyone with roving eye-contact on the last lines.
    • Speak the last lines v-e-r-y slowly.
    • Don't speak right after you have finished. Allow a few seconds of total silence for "The feather to fall to the floor."

     AFTER

    • Discuss the 5 W’s: Who, what, when, where, why
    • Discuss Sequence: Beginning, middle and end of the story

     

     

    **CREDITS: FROM MEM FOX AND OTHERS COMPILED BY READ TO ME INTERNATIONAL