Alexa Mammone

Read Aloud Narrative Assignment

The more exposure students have to books, the more likely they are to
have a positive relationship with books and reading. According to
Jennifer Serravvallo, the author of Teaching Reading in Small Groups reading
aloud to students provides students with a chance to interact with the text, with
the teacher, and with each other.
The story that I chose to read to my kindergarten classroom was The
Magic Hat by Mem Fox, illustrated by Tricia Tusa. This book is a rhyming book,
which I felt would be age appropriate for my students because they would be
able to predict what the following page would say based on the previous pages.
The Magic Hat is a fictional book about how a magic" hat appears from the sky
and creates magic all around it. The language in the book is appropriate for
emergent readers, which most of the kids in the class are. Most of the vocabulary
words are words that the kids have been previously exposed to.
After I finished reading the story, I asked the students some questions
about the book to see how much they understood. The story didnt have a very
detailed plot, but had vivid illustrations that kept the children engaged and
interested in the story and the fact that they can participate makes it an ideal
read aloud book. This book is an example of prosody because the rhyming can
be read in a sing-song way.
I would certainly use this book with other kindergarten classes because it
was very well received. The illustrations were great and corresponded well with
the text and the story was age appropriate.