Reading Aloud Assignment

For this reading aloud assignment, I read aloud to my two younger cousins, Kate who is five and Alec who is three. I loved reading aloud to them because I feel like it brought me closer to them. The books I read to them ranged from books we had all read before to books none of us had ever read. It was a great experience reading aloud the books that we had all read before because we would all say the key phrases together and it would be a bonding experience. It was also fun to read the new books together too because it was an experience we all had together to try and figure out what was going to happen next. When I first started to read aloud to them I feel like I would just read the story to them in a monotone voice. I didn’t read in different
One of the standards included asking and answering questions. Sometimes I would ask a question to my cousins about what they think would happen next or how they think certain characters feel and other times my cousins would ask me questions. I think that asking and answering questions is a huge part of reading aloud because questions are a great way to learn or think about something differently. Another standard is making connections in the book. I would talk about the relationships between the characters with my cousins and make connections between different events in the book.
The third standard that related to my experience reading aloud to my cousins was describing the relationship between the text and the illustrations. One specific example that I remember as I read Horton Hears a Who to Alec, was spotting the speck of dust. On every page of the story we would try and find the speck of dust that was in Whoville. It would be like a little scavenger hunt because I would read the page and then we would look for the speck of dust together. Overall I had a great experience reading aloud to my cousins and I loved every minute of