Read+Aloud+(Visualization+and+Illustrations)

Kareem Cutler During Reading Strategy

Read Aloud/Visualize and Illustrate for Comprehension Reading comprehension has been traditionally assessed by multiple-choice, or open-response questions after readings. The students’ answers would provide a variety of different understandings, as well as, evidence that some students struggled through a reading passage. Therefore, it has become important for teachers to help their students understand how to read a partial reading to gain comprehension. I have chosen the read aloud strategy to help my math students become familiar with how I read through a math word problem. I believe the use of visualizing and illustrating are great tools to complete a math word problem with precision.

According to Readaloud.org, research has shown that reading aloud is the single most important thing you can do for a child to prepare for reading and learning. During read aloud, the students are able to hear the pronunciations of partial vocabulary words. In addition, they could listen and visualize what’s being said, as they comprehend the passage.

Following is a list of benefits the read-aloud strategy provides, credence of Learner.org:


 * Read-alouds enable teachers to offer texts with more challenging concepts and/or language than students can read independently.
 * The read-aloud strategy helps English-language learners develop new vocabulary and syntactic awareness.
 * Reading aloud builds good reading habits. It stimulates imaginations and emotions; models good reading processes; exposes students to a range of literature; enriches vocabularies and rhetorical sensitivity; elucidates difficult texts; helps to distinguish different genres; supports independent reading; and encourages a lifelong enjoyment of reading.
 * Read-alouds show students how to question, visualize, and make predictions while they read.

During my presentation, I demonstrated how I will help my students grasp the substantial keys needed in a math word problem. I captured the audience’s attention by engaging them in a visual preparation process. Then I presented an example word problem and suggested the audience follow aloud as I read the through the passage. I confirmed with the audience each sentence and questions given were clearly understood. I showed how I would visualize and illustrate each sentence. As I drew the picture from the details in word problem, the audience started to gain knowledge that was difficult to grasp before. When I completed my illustration, the audience was able to provide me with a precise answer for the math word problem. To conclude, I explained how visualization is a wonderful tool, however visualizing and illustrating goes hand and hand to completely comprehend what being described.

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For more information on this strategy please see the following resources:

http://www2.readaloud.org/importance https://www.teachervision.com/reading-comprehension/skill-builder/48791.html