INTEGRATED
  • Home
  • Bring IntegratED to You
  • Blog
  • Resources
  • IntegratED Cohort

IntegratED Blog

Just REad Aloud to them!

1/31/2022

0 Comments

 
In college, as I (Kara) was learning and preparing to become an educator, during the summer I was a camp counselor.  I counseled junior campers (3rd grade - 6th grade, junior high campers, and senior high campers.  I LOVED being a camp counselor. I loved the hussle, the relationships I built with campers and other staffers, planning activities, you name it, I loved it.  Looking back, it definitely was the right job for me becoming a teacher! 

The reason I bring up this experience is because I learned something very valuable at a very young age and at an early stage of my career…. Read the dang book!  
You may be wondering how camp counseling and read-alouds go hand in hand? Well, one thing I did as a counselor is every night before lights out, or even after with a flashlight, I would read aloud.  EVEN TO MY SENIOR HIGH KIDS!  I read aloud every single night, no matter the age level I had in my cabin.  And do you know what, every age level loved it and would end up asking me to read more than one a night by the end of the week.  
​

This experience showed me then and reminds me now, that kids need to hear us read those dang books!  NO MATTER THE AGE!  Whether they are a kindergarten experiencing school for the first time, or a sixth grader finding his/her own way in the world, or a junior in highschool making decisions for their future, they are all still KIDS.  They are all still looking for the fun, the adventure, the escape a read aloud can bring. 
As teachers we often get so rushed by the events of our day that we so easily push that read-aloud aside, especially the older our students get.  I want you to take a second and think, how often do you read aloud to your students?  How often do they hear you or another teacher read to them?  Studies have proven the benefits of students being read aloud to, but somehow it can feel difficult to squeeze into our day.   
​  

I encourage  you now, pick up that book and read it to your students!  Make time for it in your daily routines.  Read-alouds are powerful tools in the classroom and at home. 

Some of Our Favorite Read Aloud Books

Picture
Andrea Beaty books (ex. Rosie Revere Engineer, Ada Twist Scientist, etc.) ​
Picture
Peter Reynolds books (ex. Word Collector, Peace Train)
Picture
The Circles All Around by: Brad Montague
Picture
​Strictly No Elephants by: Lisa Mantchev
Picture
​The Magical yet by: Angela DiTerlizzi
Picture
Trying by: Kobi Yamada 
Picture
​On the Account of the Gum by: Adam Rex

We Really Love Books! 

​Maybe by: Kobi Yamada
Not a Box by: Antoinette Portis
Stuck by Oliver Jeffers
Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts
You are Special by Max Lucado
The Old Women Who Named Things by Cynthia Rylant
The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires
Say Hello by Jack and Michael Foreman
Memory Jars by: Vera Brosgol


A book is a gift you can open again and again."
                                                                                          - Garrison Keillor
Picture
Two teachers for teachers, 

​                                  Meg and Kara
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Two teachers writing to teachers for teachers. 

    Archives

    August 2022
    July 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    September 2021
    August 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Picture

©IntegratED 2022

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Home
  • Bring IntegratED to You
  • Blog
  • Resources
  • IntegratED Cohort