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Reconsidering
Read-Aloud
Reconsidering Read-Aloud.Mary Lee Hahn. Copyright © 2002. All rights reserved. No reproduction without written permission
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Reconsidering
Read-Aloud
MARY LEE HAHN
Stenhouse Publishers
Portland, Maine
Reconsidering Read-Aloud.Mary Lee Hahn. Copyright © 2002. All rights reserved. No reproduction without written permission
from Stenhouse Publishers.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hahn, Mary Lee, 1960–
Reconsidering read-aloud / Mary Lee Hahn.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 1-57110-351-1 (alk. paper)
1. Children—Books and reading—United States. 2. Oral reading. 3.
Reading (Middle school)—United States. 4. Children’s literature—Study and
teaching (Middle school)—United States. I. Title.
Z1037.A1 H25 2002
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Reconsidering Read-Aloud.Mary Lee Hahn. Copyright © 2002. All rights reserved. No reproduction without written permission
from Stenhouse Publishers.
Dedicated to the people
who read to me first:
my mom, my dad,
and my big brother.
Reconsidering Read-Aloud.Mary Lee Hahn. Copyright © 2002. All rights reserved. No reproduction without written permission
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. The Roles of the Teacher 7
2. Choosing Books 23
3. Building Classroom Community 33
4. General Strategies 59
5. Fiction Strategies 75
6. Nonfiction Strategies 95
7. Evaluation and Assessment 101
Appendix 1: The “Favorites” Project 115
Appendix 2: Reading at Home 134
Appendix 3: Read-Aloud as a Teaching Time 150
Bibliography 153
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Acknowledgments
Wisdom tells me I am nothing;
love tells me I am everything.
Between the two, my life flows.
—An Indian master
When Franki Sibberson and Karen
Szymusiak asked me to do my presenta-
tion on read-aloud for the class they were teaching, I agreed, if for no
other reason than to have them in my audience. Over the last ten or fif-
teen years, we have worked together on committees, planned conferences
together, and even launched a book club, but I had never had the oppor-
tunity to teach with them. I value their professional opinions. In fact, as I
walked up the steps of the school where I would be presenting, I said to
myself, “If Franki says, ‘You should write a book,’ I’ll do it.” Obviously,
she said it. Thanks for getting me started, Franki.
Franki wasn’t the only one who believed in me early on. Thank you
to my editor, Bill Varner, and the folks at Stenhouse who saw something
in those early drafts that told them I was worth the risk.
There couldn’t have been a book at all if it hadn’t been for my stu-
dents. All of you, from the first class at W. A. Blair Elementary in
Dallas, Texas, to the classes at Deer Run Elementary and Daniel
Wright Elementary in Dublin, Ohio, have helped me become the
teacher I am today. Every day is new and alive and important when you
walk through the classroom door all smart and funny, ornery and
unpredictable, compassionate and patient, and ready like sponges to
learn. A special thanks to your parents for letting me be a part of your
families for a little while.
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Description:Read-aloud is a time of enjoyment and relaxation for teachers and students—a time when powerful, effective teaching and rigorous learning can take place while keeping the pleasures of reading front and center.Reconsidering Read-Aloud invites you to examine both the spontaneous and planned conversa
