Read-alouds

Read-alouds are a great classroom activity. Teachers read aloud a text, and students can either listen or follow along. All students will benefit from this, whether they read or not. Young students or any struggling readers will love to listen to stories or information being read to them. All students will hear their teacher modeling proper, fluent reading. Students can focus on good intonation, exclamation, as well as reading comprehension.
Teachers can read a story aloud and discuss it with the students. They can learn how to predict, ask questions, comments, and so on. Students can learn story sequence and creative writing from stories, with the teacher guiding the students to noticing these ideas.
Here is a lesson plan which includes a read-aloud activity.
Here is an article on read-alouds.
Here is an article on the benefits of read-alouds on vocabulary development.