Interactive Read-Alouds, Grades 2-3: Linking Standards, Fluency, and Comprehension

Read-aloud time is much treasured in most elementary classrooms as teachers share children s classics with their young readers. Linda Hoyt s Interactive Read-Alouds will help you make the most of read-aloud time by showing you creative ways to use popular children s literature to teach standards, fluency, and comprehension. Combining award-winning text and engaging conversations with reflective thinking, Linda s lessons will add drama to your literacy block and will teach your young readers strategies they will use across the curriculum.

Interactive Read-Alouds includes the following components:

• Interactive Read-Alouds (book of lessons) contains standards-based lessons designed around children s classics with Share the Reading strategies and Readers Theater Scripts.
• The Teacher s Guide outlines the thinking behind Interactive Read-Alouds and describes how to apply the strategies in your classroom.
• An Interactive Read-Alouds CD-ROM provides all of the shared text and Readers Theater Scripts in an easily accessible PDF format.