Screaming Schema
Before I read a story aloud, I activate student’s prior experiences and knowledge (schema). I sat in my rocking chair, talking with kindergartners before reading a large, appealing book called A Splendid Friend Indeed (Suzanne Bloom, Boyds’ Mills Press, 2005.) I was enjoying the session and the children seemed motivated and involved. Evidently it was all too much for one little girl, who suddenly yelled loudly, “Would you just READ the book?!”
