Meaningful Read Alouds for Vocabulary and Oral Language Comprehension
It’s not just what you read, but how you read with students that counts! Learn how you can make your read alouds even more effective learning opportunities.
- Cost
- 100% Free
- Time to complete
- 2 Hours
- Provides a
- Certificate of Training
Recommended for
- Kindergarten – 3rd Grade Educators
- Paraprofessionals
- Instructional Coaches
- Principals and Vice Principals
- Nonprofit staff and Volunteers
By the End of This Course You’ll Be Able To
- Describe the relationship between reading aloud to students and listening comprehension, vocabulary, and language skills
- Model ability to read aloud to students to enhance critical thinking, personal reflection, empathy and imagination
- Develop a plan for read-alouds using the K3 START Read framework and lesson planning sheet
- Apply engaging activities that are related to your read-alouds throughout the day
Why It Matters
- Meaningful read-alouds provide opportunities for students to use their schema
- Meaningful read-alouds increase Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary
- Meaningful read-alouds increase listening comprehension
- Meaningful read-alouds provide opportunities for students to improve oral and expressive language skills
How it Works
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Learn at Your Own Pace
You don’t have to finish the course all in one sitting. In fact, we recommend you take this course a little bit at a time, incorporating what you’ve learned in the classroom.
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Earn IACET CEUs
In order to pass and receive IACET CEUs for this course, you will first need to complete all the lessons, then complete the end of course assessment with a score of 80% or higher.
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Free Guided Resources
As you go through a course, we’ll introduce you to free resources that will help you implement what you’re learning.
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Never Learn Alone
Have a question on what you’re learning in the course or how to use a resource? Reach out to the Cox Campus community for advice or to lend a helping hand to others.
Lessons
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Lesson 1
RA Lesson 1: An Introduction to Read-Alouds
Duration 28 minutesIn this lesson, you will discover why reading aloud to your students is important and learn more of the specific skills this method helps enhance in children. You will also get tips on how to choose the right books for read-alouds. -
Lesson 2
RA Lesson 2: Building Blocks of the Brain and Read-Alouds
Duration 24 minutesIn this lesson, you will learn how reading aloud to your students can enhance critical thinking, personal reflection, empathy, and imagination. -
Lesson 3
RA Lesson 3: The K-3 START Read in Action
Duration 38 minutesIn this lesson, you will be introduced to the K-3 START Read strategy for reading aloud to students. You will learn how to use this strategy to plan for a read-aloud. -
Lesson 4
RA Lesson 4: Beyond the Read-Aloud
Duration 26 minutesIn this lesson, you will discover ways that to incorporate engaging activities that are related to your read-alouds in order to further enhance language and listening comprehension. -
Lesson 5
RA Lesson 5: End of Course Assessment
Duration 20 minutesIn this lesson, you will take the end-of-course assessment. You must score 80% or higher to pass the assessment and receive your certificate of completion.
Your Facilitator
Yvette Manns
Rollins Center K-3rd Grade Facilitator
Yvette is a K-3 Facilitator for the Rollins Center. She is a member of the Rollins’ Content Development Team for online learning courses for Cox Campus and provides online coaching on Cox Campus practices.
Success Stories
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"The Cox Campus will give you practical tools to dramatically benefit the children in your classrooms, giving them the power to be successful in elementary school and well beyond."MeganTeacher
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"I have learned so much to take back to my classroom. I’m using these learning experiences to help strengthen the language of each child and I see a difference each day in the children’s language."DeborahTeacher
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"I have experienced more meaningful conversations with my students and have seen them flourish in literacy due to the incorporation of strategies I’ve learned."KatiePre-K Teacher
FAQs
The Cox Campus is the digital outreach platform for the Rollins Center for Language & Literacy. Our team is composed of experienced teachers, early learning and language experts, neuroscientists, school leaders, speech language pathologists and authorities in adult learning and curriculum design to give all children access to the Science of Reading to change the odds for all children.
When you sign up for the Cox Campus, you'll get access to interactive, video-based courses, hundreds of free printable resources, virtual workshops and webinars from early childhood development experts, and a community of child-pacing professionals and families.
The Cox Campus is for all child-facing adults to work to improve child outcomes and positively impact learning. We have courses and content designed for educators, school district leaders, medical professionals, childcare providers, families, and more.
Everything on the Cox Campus is available at no cost – ever. Thanks to generous partner investments and grant funding, the Cox Campus creates online courses and resources for child-facing adults so literacy is a reality for every child.
All the resources and courses on Cox Campus are created based on the latest research and science in early childhood development. Childhood development experts at the Rollins Center for Language and Literacy at the Atlanta Speech School create all of the content based on strategies they implement in real classrooms.
New courses, resources, and teaching guides are released frequently. All of the content on Cox Campus is designed to help teachers, families, and community leaders with challenges they may be facing right now.
The Rollins Center, of the Atlanta Speech School, in some cases, may allow an instructor, facilitator, content editor or a subject matter expert or consultant with proprietary interests to conduct professional development activities at Rollins events, provided that appropriate disclosure of such interest is made. Disclosure of proprietary interest will be made on course material and at the beginning of the course/learning event, when applicable.
