Our Storytime
Loving Me Books pairs up with various schools and businesses to present Interactive Read-Aloud Sessions. We provide a team of actors, authors, entertainers, entrepreneurs, and other authoritative figures with reading material.
What is an interactive read-aloud?
An interactive read-aloud is a literacy event whereby children actively engage in listening and talking about the text throughout the duration of the read-aloud. In contrast to the traditional read-aloud where children sit quietly as the teacher reads a text in its entirety prior to discussion (if any), the interactive read-aloud invites conversation from cover to cover. The teacher may read aloud a page, a few pages, or several chapters (depending upon the text and the age of the learner) and stop to discuss key ideas, illustrations, or other text features that enhance comprehension, note interesting details, make connections to other texts, or confirm/dis-confirm predictions.
It is okay for children to interrupt the reading to share ideas, particularly when viewing an illustrated text or picture book. While readers are focused on the print, students’ eyes and minds are free to wander as they purposefully attend to both oral language and illustrations. It is not uncommon for children to notice the minute details in pictures or think about an illustration in such a way as to fine tune, enhance, or possibly skew the intended meaning of the text. This, of course, serves to heighten understanding and promote grand conversations. Because children are actively participating in meaning making across the text, the time required for an interactive read-aloud is greater than the time required for a traditional read-aloud...but the additional time on the clock is well worth it!
There are many benefits to reading aloud:
•Helps children associate reading with warm and pleasant feelings.
•Increases communications with the person reading.
•Introduces new concepts in a fun and engaging way.
•Builds listening skills, vocabulary, memory, and language skills.
•Develops imagination and creativity.
•Helps children gain information about the world and relate characters,
setting, and plot to their own lives.
•Helps develop personal interests.
•Teaches positive behavior patterns, social values, and positive attitudes
toward self and others.
•Teaches about print concepts.
In addition, we provide material to enhance your child's reading and comprehension skills. Followed by an Q & A.
What is an interactive read-aloud?
An interactive read-aloud is a literacy event whereby children actively engage in listening and talking about the text throughout the duration of the read-aloud. In contrast to the traditional read-aloud where children sit quietly as the teacher reads a text in its entirety prior to discussion (if any), the interactive read-aloud invites conversation from cover to cover. The teacher may read aloud a page, a few pages, or several chapters (depending upon the text and the age of the learner) and stop to discuss key ideas, illustrations, or other text features that enhance comprehension, note interesting details, make connections to other texts, or confirm/dis-confirm predictions.
It is okay for children to interrupt the reading to share ideas, particularly when viewing an illustrated text or picture book. While readers are focused on the print, students’ eyes and minds are free to wander as they purposefully attend to both oral language and illustrations. It is not uncommon for children to notice the minute details in pictures or think about an illustration in such a way as to fine tune, enhance, or possibly skew the intended meaning of the text. This, of course, serves to heighten understanding and promote grand conversations. Because children are actively participating in meaning making across the text, the time required for an interactive read-aloud is greater than the time required for a traditional read-aloud...but the additional time on the clock is well worth it!
There are many benefits to reading aloud:
•Helps children associate reading with warm and pleasant feelings.
•Increases communications with the person reading.
•Introduces new concepts in a fun and engaging way.
•Builds listening skills, vocabulary, memory, and language skills.
•Develops imagination and creativity.
•Helps children gain information about the world and relate characters,
setting, and plot to their own lives.
•Helps develop personal interests.
•Teaches positive behavior patterns, social values, and positive attitudes
toward self and others.
•Teaches about print concepts.
In addition, we provide material to enhance your child's reading and comprehension skills. Followed by an Q & A.
