Reading and especially the practice of reading aloud are crucial elements in the education of children’s earlier years. Amounts of previously conducted research is tackling reoccurring problems around reading and literacy, but just relatively few relate their work to the practice of reading aloud in the classroom setting.  This study is hereby focusing on reading aloud in the context of the large classroom and examining question types of observed conversations. By taking three different student and teacher groups (years 1, 2 and 3) into account, the small-scale study attempts to answer concerns on how, where and about what these conversations are taking place. With a backdrop on related research, the study makes use of three different researchers as a framework to respond to this. Because the narrow scale of the study it can’t be seen as representative as such, but provides suggestions for further reflections.