Chapter 4 & Text Talk

            Chapter 4 discusses read alouds and shared reading in great detail.  I enjoyed reading and learning more about them and their differences.  The article persay I did not enjoy as well as the textbook because the textbook always explains their focus and are more convincing, in my opinion.  A read aloud is a passage selected by the teacher to read publicly to a large or small group of students with the purpose of pulling out the content of the text whereas shared reading is a passage jointly shared by the student and the teacher focusing on a specific text feature or comprehension strategy.  In both, the reading is done by the teacher; therefore the teacher should read using prosody, modeling reading as interesting even if it is expository text.  The difference in the two is when and how they are used because their focuses are different as mentioned earlier.  In the article it mentioned that the text chosen for read alouds play an important part because for one, it aids in developing literacy, and two it needs to be challenging enough to make students use their schema to perform metacognition.  Also in the article it mentions how students are able to think and reason before or when they come to school but we have to scaffold how to think and reason while reading other texts. Scaffold instruction in shared reading extends students’ learning because the learner receives immediate feedback and further prompts to arrive at solutions.  Shared reading allows teachers to address comprehension strategies through modeling with each student.  After each shared reading is it also important that teachers allow a think- aloud because you want to make sure that students not only know the concepts but understand them and can manipulate them correctly.