LTL Podcast Episode 26: The Importance of Read-Alouds with Molly Ness

It is no secret that I love planning and implementing interactive read-alouds with my students. Read-Alouds offer the teacher the opportunity to share books, authors, and genres with students. It also allows teachers to model a fluent reading of a text – and most importantly, it allows us to share the invisible thinking work that we do when reading with students.

On this week’s podcast, I speak with Dr. Molly Ness. Molly is a former classroom teacher, reading researcher, and teacher educator. She was a professor of childhood education at Fordham University. She has a new book out called Read Alouds for All Learners: A Comprehensive Plan for Every Subject, Every Day.

During our conversation, we talk about what a read aloud is and why it is important to plan read-alouds for students – at all grade levels. One of the parts of Molly’s book that I enjoyed so much is that this book includes read-alouds for middle school students (spoiler – Molly explains why she does not include the high school grades in this book). She also gives great strategies for implementing read-alouds with different grade levels – and what to focus on when working with kids at each grade level. Finally, Molly shares some ideas for parents about what they can do when reading to and with their kids at home.

I do hope you will check out this episode!