Reflective Essay On Read Aloud

When engaging in an interactive read aloud as a teacher, being confident and comfortable in the situation is prevelant for successfully engaging your students to learning and understanding. Being in room 201C and just the enclosed environment of the room made doing this very difficult for me, and I know that it shows in my reading. I also know that there were some positives to take out of this long process to becoming a teacher and improving my ability to do read alouds. I wanted to focus on improving some of the aspects that Dr. Napoli had informed me that I could do better with after our read aloud out in the field. I believe I did a good job at showing the pictures to everyone in the room, even though it might be hard to tell on the video, but with the pictures being an important aspect of a fictional picture book, they deserve just as much attention as the words in the story. Another aspect that I

Ivy had a serious book, with some serious themes and ideas to it about segregation in the south. When Ivy was reading, she kept a serious demenor and did a really good job of putting emphasis where it needed to be during key parts of the story. The other aspect that I saw was Emily, and how she was having fun, and had a more relaxed happy, funny attitude toward the reading, because her book was a happy, funny story. Emily has confidence in her ability to be in front of people, and it shows because she is very relaxed and enjoys reading which makes the audience want to be more focused and attentive because the reader is displaying that reading is fun. However, I thought we all had some great attributes that we displayed and things we all can work on because this was only our second real read aloud and it takes a lot of time and trials of doing something like this to become very