Does read alouds improve comprehension?

Answer 1

Yes, for your the whole class it does.

Let's face it...kindergartners with minimal skill can listen to the Gingerbread Man and tell you what happened but not be able to read it at all.

Given that reading emergence is developmental and therefore a class is at a variety of levels...what is read aloud to some can be comprehended even if they can not read all the words. (Some may be at that level, but still it helps them.)

Plus...the reader is hopefully modeling fluency which helps readers learn the "gate" at which their mind should read and the oral connection to the words in print. If it becomes more real, the reader understands...comprehends better.

It works in later years. Take Shakespeare...in iambic pentameter and Elizabethan English one can usually not pick it up and go "ah...get that." Most teachers read it...or parts of it...so that you get it...even to 19 year olds.

Answer 2

It seems to help me. There were times I wanted to learn something and I even read it aloud and be looking in the mirror walking around, like I was giving a speech. Be waving a finger around in the air. It made it more fun to me and not as dull.

Answer 3

It does for some, just like some people learn faster from touching or a hands on approach. For others, it doesn;t do any harm, so they can take it or leave it.

Answer 4

actually I think for me, it makes my comprehension worse because I'm focused more on how I sound when I'm speaking rather than what I'm actually reading..

Answer 5

Actually the more of your 5 senses you use to learn something the better youll remember- speaking it, seeing it, touching it, doing it, or tasting it if possible. lol.

Answer 6

It relies upon. yet i personally imagine it ought to. Its like somebody else is reading to you, and normaly u do understand at the same time as someone is announcing it out loud. and also at the same time as u study out loud u dont omit words out! -authentic. So attempt reading out loud..and it ought to help u!