The Read to Me ELP™ is designed to give all young learners a chance to succeed.
The Read to Me ELP™ was custom designed by Lynn Rosenthal, a nationally-recognized reading specialist. It focuses on reading aloud to give all young learners a chance to learn to read and to develop a love of reading. Children enhance their vocabulary, build background knowledge, develop higher order thinking skills, learn to become fluent readers, develop a sense of story structure, increase their oral language development, and learn that reading is a joy!
How it Works
- Teachers read professionally-selected books out loud to students in class
- Teachers ask questions to develop comprehension skills
- Students borrow a different book to take home each night
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Parents read with their children at home, and use before, during and after questions to develop
higher order thinking skills.
This program is unique among all other national early literacy programs because each book comes with a comprehension card including a list of questions for adults to ask children before, during, and after reading the book. The questions give children a framework for understanding the book and teach children that reading is more than just reading words – it is about understanding and making meaning of what has been read. These questions are based on the educational principles of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Higher Order Thinking.
Read to Me provides schools with rotating thematic libraries of quality, illustrated, hardback children’s literature. The program is designed for children in pre-school through second grade. There are seventeen thematic units including humor, healthy me, friendship, poetry, and math, among others. Each theme features 20 different books as well as second copies of ten of the titles for a total of 30 books in each set. The fiction and nonfiction books are carefully selected to meet the educational and comprehension needs of the young audience. The program includes such childhood favorites as Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Robert Munsch’s Love You Forever, Chris Van Allsburg’s The Polar Express, and Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree, among other new literature.
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