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“She's sort of dragging me into the story!” Student teachers' experiences of reading aloud in Key Stage 2 classes
Author(s) -
Collins Fiona M.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
literacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.649
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1741-4369
pISSN - 1741-4350
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4350.2005.00392.x
Subject(s) - reading aloud , reading (process) , pedagogy , psychology , think aloud protocol , mathematics education , narrative , class (philosophy) , curriculum , read aloud , key (lock) , primary education , linguistics , computer science , philosophy , computer security , human–computer interaction , usability , artificial intelligence
This article explores the place of the class novel within the current primary curriculum. It begins with an overview of past and current thinking about reading aloud to older primary‐age children. The discussion then moves on to describing research carried out with 43 primary postgraduate student teachers, which aimed to investigate the students' school experiences of observing reading aloud and working on whole narrative texts. Lastly, the article focuses on how the findings influenced changes made to a postgraduate primary course in order to support and develop students' understanding of the role that reading aloud plays in developing children's critical understanding of story.