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Reflection on a read aloud that was done with a class. The essay includes information about the read-aloud strategies used, the way audience/students responded, opportunities for growth next reading, and the overall description of the book....

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Jordan Williams ECH-430 December 14, 2018 Kimberly Vigil Read-Aloud The Book with No Pictures is a fictional book written by B. J. Novak and as one could guess, it is about a book that contains no pictures. At first glance this might seem like a horrible book to read to children due to the lack of pictures; however, that cannot be said for all books and certainly not this book. This book begins talking about how there are no included pictures, but that doesn’t make it boring! The book states that whatever the book says, the person has to say too. The book then goes on to say crazy words such as “blork”, “grumoh-a-doo”, and “bluurf” making the reader say them aloud. It also has the reader say humorous things such as “I am a monkey who taught myself to read” and “my head is made of blueberry pizza” (Novak, B., J., 2016). A few of the strategies I was using during this read aloud was the PEER prompting and fluctuation in tone. Children can be prompted in multiple ways during a reading, but for this specific reading I chose to prompt my reader, a four-year-old boy, with recall, open-ended questions, and Wh- questions. During part of the reading I asked the boy to recall what was the rule that the book stated? The rule is that whoever is reading the book has to say exactly what is in the book, including the funny sounds. I also asked the boy an open-ended question of why do you think people prefer books with pictures in them? I had prompts like this located throughout the book to fully enhance the reading, which the student responded very well to as it caused him to be more engaged with the reading. The book was definitely a crowd pleaser as the young boy

was very engaged with the reading and found it very humorous. He laughed at all the funny sounds and sayings, but also had questions about some of the words said and what they meant. If I were to read this book to an entire class I would make sure to address that some of the words are made up and don’t have meaning. An opportunity for growth would be to read the book a couple times in advance to be more thoroughly prepared. The book has lots of made up words that can hard to say on the fly, next time I would practice reading it a couple times to make sure I am proficient in my reading to students. I would also add sticky notes to the pages of where I am wanting to ask a question or prompt my students. I had a difficult time remembering all of my prompts and this would have helped me tremendously to have those reminders.

References Novak, B. J. (2016). The book with no pictures. London: Puffin....