Comprehension strategies for Read Alouds

These explicit strategies are used in the LMC to strengthen students' literacy skills:

• Activate prior knowledge before a read aloud esp with
  

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  or with youngest children

• Ask questions about a place,
  

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  a person, or a subject before reading or investigating it

• Read author's note before reading the historical fiction text or do a picture walk

• Preview vocabulary before a read aloud with rich language or a poem

• Compare and contrast
  

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  across texts, such as with different versions of a fairy tale, folktales from the same country, or looking at a content area, i.e. read alouds about Asia, or about families

• Read author's note to identify the source culture of a folktale, locate place of origin on a map and activate prior knowledge about their culture in terms of geography

• Summarize a story
• Study the illustration is a good way to start with PK & K.