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  Which camp are you in? Some teachers in todays classroom find their reading instruction heavily scripted every minute accounted for. For those teachers, read alouds are squeezed out by stressful, non-stop instruction. Any teacher caught reading aloud is accused of wasting time. Other teachers dabble in read alouds because they still have some control over what goes on in their classroom, but when read-aloud time comes, they simply open a book and read for a few minutes (while struggling with classroom management). They expect students to gain from the experience. I d like to suggest instead, that teachers create a read-aloud environment thats a combination of enticing entertainment, skillful modeling of comprehension and thinking strategies, and just plan fun. I call that a shared reading experience, the basis of this series of articles. How do you do it? Read on

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