First Read Aloud

Today I completed my first read aloud with a first grade class! I read Snoopy for President by Charles Schulz; the students enjoyed the fact that some of the characters had names of students in the class. My CT asked me to introduce and connect a reading strategy with my read aloud. The strategy I had was finding interesting words throughout the book to use when talking and writing. The use of the read aloud to correlate and model a reading strategy is a fantastic utilization of time because the students get to hear/see a new book and learn how to be an effective reader at the same time. My CT laminates the strategies and leaves them on a bench, where they are accessible for all students. This gives the students an opportunity to refer to the cards if they want to practice a certain reading strategy. I will use something like this in my own classroom one day.