"The Sisters" really have put great procedures and modeling into place to make Read to Someone and Listen to Reading successful. On "The Daily Cafe" website, I found the focus lessons and sample I-Chart all in one place, so I have placed it below for you.
**Intermediate Teachers** Another interesting fact that I read online was that for intermediate students, "The Sisters" do not believe that all of them need to do Read To Someone. They stated that once a student reaches a 4th grade reading level that Read to Someone becomes laborious and not engaging for them. However, they did say that it is good for your auditory processing students who need that extra support with fluency and to have them choose Good Fit books. They also said that intermediate students can read two different books, however they simply need to take turns reading aloud and discussing the text.
Examples of other charts created during Read To Someone are EEKK and Ways To Read to Someone. Here are some examples that I found:
Ensuring that you introduce these new skills slowly and taking the time to teach students what to do and think is important so that your Daily 5 runs smoothly in your classroom. If you start Daily 5 at the beginning of the school year and it isn't running as smoothly as it sounds in the book, e-mail Rhonda! She will be able to come in and help you get on track or she could cover your classroom so that you could watch another of your teaching colleagues implement the strategies. We have so many wonderful teachers and resources at KES, we just need to remember to take advantage of all of them!
Listening to Reading is something that might seem easy for everyone as you probably already do something similar to this in your classroom. Student can share a tape recorder and several books together or students can listen to books on their own with an IPOD. You might think of writing a PTO mini grant to get 4-5 IPODS and ear buds and create mini Listening to Reading stations. Then you can have guest readers read the books to the student (anyone with an IPHONE can record themselves reading and then e-mail the audio file to the teacher to place on the IPOD). Scott and I have done this for several teachers and it works pretty well! There are also some websites that have celebrities reading books to students. One such website is the Screen Actor's Guild and the link for that is found here.
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