Reading Aloud Project Report for Sociology Assignment

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Sociology
Assignment Title: Reading 100
Project Read Aloud Report
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Table of Contents
1. What was the age and relationship of your reading partner to you? What did you read to
them? Describe the typical meeting: Where did you read, when, how long?............................3
2. How did your relationship change as you went along? What did you learn about that
person that you did not already know? Has your partner’s attitude toward reading changed?. 3
3. What did you learn about yourself that you did not already know? How has your attitude
changed toward reading, especially read aloud?........................................................................4
4. What was the best thing you experienced about this project?...............................................5
5. What surprised you about this project?..................................................................................5
6. Explain why you will or will not read aloud again................................................................5
References..................................................................................................................................6
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1. What was the age and relationship of your reading partner to you? What did you
read to them? Describe the typical meeting: Where did you read, when, how long?
I am Sephora Mut and my partner is my elder sister, Mgaly Kon. She is 28 years old and I
read books to her because of her interest in this area. I have chosen her as my reading aloud
partner because she likes to read a lot and it would be convenient for me because we both live
in the same house. We read for 12 days, beginning from 23rd September for half an hour daily
from 6:30 pm to 7:00 pm. We performed this activity at home and I got the books online for
the sessions.
2. How did your relationship change as you went along? What did you learn about that
person that you did not already know? Has your partner’s attitude toward reading
changed?
In the initial stage I had a thought that one of the highly known idea is that any text written
for children must be bring up some moral values or teachings for the reader. So, I chose a
didactic book, which was “Cat in the Hat” by Dr Seuss. I was hoping that there would not be
much of informative rather we expected that it would be exciting or playful. We were
expecting some thrill however towards the end there was absent mother who came back home
and cat got disappeared. Throughout the book story, there was a perception of the kids to be
highly mischievous, however towards the end of the book, it was realized that even if they
got involved into mischief they are still good kids (Seuss 56). There had been instances of
breaking of rules by the children however they never crossed major boundaries. Even though,
earlier my sister liked to read, but towards the end of the session she had developed the liking
for reading out loud. The read aloud discussion were later highly focussed on making
inferences and predictions. Each few paragraphs, we would stop and prompt the other to turn
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