Grade 1 · Reading · Lesson 38

Read a Story to Your Class

Reading a story aloud to an audience is one of the most generous things a reader can do — you are sharing the whole experience of a book with the people around you. Professional storytellers prepare carefully before they perform. Today you do the same.

What this lesson teaches

1Choose a story appropriate for an audience and explain the choice
2Prepare a book for read-aloud by marking expression cues on the printed text
3Perform a complete read-aloud using pace, volume, pitch, and character voices

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