Reading aloud helping to build better writers

For an hour each morning, the eighth-grade students in the Language Immersion program at the Education Laboratory — a charter school in Hawaii — follow along in their books to the sound of their teacher’s voice, rising suddenly to sharp bursts of Harry Potter dialogue and then back to a weaseling voice for sly Professor Snape as he reads out loud from the popular series. At the same time, they are subconsciously recognizing verbs and nouns and predicates and clauses — absorbing language and literature in a way designed to make them accomplished readers and fluid, fluent writers. Read more about this approach to instruction in this article from The Honolulu Advertiser.