Solara Learning

As a reading teacher, you are probably already doing this work, maybe you just haven’t named it for students.  When you ask students to make connections to the main character, you are asking them to do heart work. They have to look within themselves, first know about themselves as humans, before they can connect to a text in any way. An interactive read aloud provides not only practice of reading skills, but also leaves us, the community of readers, with a moral, lesson or theme that impacts our