The Read Aloud: An Instructional Guide (genre reflection #2)
First, make sure you pee. If anything else, don’t neglect your bladder. What you think you can hold at the beginning of a read-aloud could change three...no two paragraphs in. After that’s taken care of, make sure you confer with your MT. What? Read? Oh! Yeah. No problem. Remember those last two words: No problem . Remember them when you walk—slightly hungover—to the front of the class, a book in hand that you haven’t even opened once this semester. Although, don’t worry. They don’t know that. Look at them. They probably think you worship the works of this author. Whoever it is. Shakespeare? Turn the book around. Oh, Faulkner. Breathe. Wipe the sw...