Duara Education Read Alouds Course

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Course Description

This short course introduces School Entrepreneurs and teachers to the Duara Education approach to Read Alouds. At Duara, Read Alouds are intentional, joyful, language-rich sessions where children build vocabulary, comprehension, imagination, confidence, and love for stories.

 

Using the example of Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o and its Cox Campus START Guide, this course shows teachers how to prepare for a Read Aloud, gather learners, introduce the book, use the YouTube read-aloud video, pause for meaningful thinking, teach vocabulary, ask strong questions, and extend the story beyond the reading moment.

 

By the end of the course, teachers should be able to run a warm, purposeful, age-appropriate Read Aloud that feels playful to children but remains grounded in strong early literacy practice.

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What Will You Learn?

  • Explain why Read Alouds matter for early literacy and child development.
  • Describe Duara’s Read Aloud routine before, during, after, and beyond the read.
  • Use a Cox Campus START Guide to plan a Read Aloud.
  • Facilitate a Read Aloud using a YouTube book video without becoming passive.
  • Teach focus vocabulary using child-friendly explanations, actions, pictures, and real objects.
  • Ask age-appropriate questions that build comprehension and conversation.
  • adapt a Read Aloud for Playgroup, PP1/PP2, and G1/G2 learners.
  • Create a simple Read Aloud plan for one book.

Course Content

Topic 1: Welcome to Read Alouds at Duara
This topic introduces the Duara approach to Read Alouds. It explains that Read Alouds are not passive story-watching moments, but intentional learning experiences where teachers help children listen, think, speak, imagine, and connect with books. Learners are introduced to Sulwe and the Cox Campus START Guide as the main examples for the course.

Topic 2: Why Read Alouds Matter
Children become stronger readers when they first become stronger listeners and speakers. Read Alouds expose children to new words, sentence patterns, ideas, emotions, and story structures. They hear language that may be richer than ordinary daily conversation. When children listen to stories often, they begin to understand how language works. They learn how characters speak, how events unfold, and how ideas connect. This strengthens oral language, which is one of the foundations of later reading.

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