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Ring Some Bells. Rattle Some Chains.

Shared Reading and Reading Aloud with Props

by Karen Tischhauser

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Read with your students. Read together.

If I want to get good active reading and understanding from my students, any students, I need to use objects, props, something they can hold or touch or see or hear. There is something almost magical about reading when props are involved. The words on the page come alive. The setting appears all around us. The situations become real, as though we are experiencing them first-hand instead of simply reading words on a page. Our reading and our talk about our reading gains depth. We are able to think at a high level. Above all of that, true reading—with all of its wonder and joy and escape—happens. We are transported.

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Paperback
Format: 6 x 9 Black & White Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Outskirts Press (Sep 04, 2025)
ISBN10: 1977285015
ISBN13: 9781977285010
Genre: EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies

Author Information...

Karen Tischhauserteaches English at Barrington Middle School – Station Campus, in Barrington, Illinois. Her drive to inspire writing, reading, and a love of words brought objects into her classroom years ago. These objects—these props—make reading memorable and engage all of her students’ senses. Ring Some Bells - Rattle Some Chains is Karen’s third book for teachers. She and her husband live in North Barrington, Illinois.
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