Oral Reading

Strategies

Reading for Fluency and

Comprehension

Oral reading instruction:

Reading to children

Reading with children

Listening to children read

Oral Reading Strategies

Read Aloud

Repeated Reading • Performance Reading

Supported Reading

Across the Curriculum

Oral reading activities can be:

Done daily for their own sake

Integrated into reading curriculum

• Use with other reading comprehension strategies

Integrated into content areas

Used to connect school and family

Read Aloud

• Models the Reading Experience

• Models expression

• Printed texts are different, more complex than oral language

• Builds language knowledge before decoding skills

• Builds Motivation- Nurtures Desire to Read

Interactive Read Aloud

Actively engages listeners

ELLs need:

Smaller amounts of input at a time

Frequent comprehension checks

Explicit vocabulary instruction

Guided connection to personal experience

Multiple readings and extensions

Repeated Reading

Practice, Practice, Practice !

Helps achieve more automatic accuracy

Helps break out of word-by-word reading

Deeper levels of comprehension

More attention goes to creating meaning with each pass

Research: Mastery through repeated practice transfers to new, unfamiliar texts

Most helpful for struggling readers

Performance Reading

Makes repeated reading an authentic

experience

Preparing to Read for an audience

Reading for a purpose

Highly Motivating & engaging

Effective for all levels of readers

Reader’s Theater

Supported Reading-Types

Paired Reading

One on one

Can include repeated reading and

read-aloud/shared reading

Choral Reading

Part of classroom routine

Builds classroom community

Supported Reading :Rationale

• Scaffolded reading

• Modeling Independent reading

• Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development

• ELLs: Immediate oral and reading support • Students “notice the gap” more readily and adjust

• Research: • Significant improvement for poor readers

• One month of practice = Three months’ gain

Paired Reading: Best Practices

Text selection at student’s instructional level

90 -95 % word recognition (repeated reading: 85%)

Allow student to choose reading

Sit side by side

For ELLs: Use other strategies to lay groundwork • Preview, vocab focus, discussion, connections

Read out loud together as student follows text

Calibrate pace and tone to support the student

Don’t stop during reading to teach missed words

Paired Reading

Who can pair with the student?

Paired reading

Who can pair with the student?

Parent

Teacher

Older student

Students at different reading levels

Paired Reading-Variations

Echo Reading • Echo phrases instead of reading simultaneously

• Student can sometimes take the lead

Buddy Reading • Makes reading a desirable social activity

• Cross-age/cross-level buddies: gives older challenged readers a purpose for reading simpler, younger texts.

• Effective for ESL settings

Recorded Reading • Reading while listening to audio/videotape

• Good alternative when manpower is limited

Buddy Reading

Let’s Try!

Choral Reading: Best Practices

A regular part of the day • Transition times

Reinforce teamwork attitude with students

Thoughtful text selection

Match the choral reading format to the text.

ELLs: Use other strategies to lay the groundwork: Preview, vocabulary, discussion, connections

Choral Reading

• Verse & Refrain

• Call & Response

• Line-a-child Good for songs & poems

• Choral Singing

• Cumulative Choral Reading

-students add their voices progressively

• Impromptu Choral Reading -Students choose which sections to read

• Dialogues -groups take roles

-Parts assigned to groups or to one

Tips for Text Selection

Shorter texts

Meant to be expressed out loud Authentic

Good rhythm, distinct parts Poems, song lyrics, toasts, short stories

Have community value Pledge, MLK speech, Preamble, patriotic songs

1- And so let freedom ring.

2- From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire,

Let freedom ring.

3- From the mighty mountains of New York,

Let freedom ring.

4- From the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado,

Let freedom ring.

5- But not only that: From Stone Mountain of Georgia,

Let freedom ring.

6- From Lookout Mountain of Tennessee,

Let freedom ring.

7- From every hill and molehill of Mississippi,

Let freedom ring.

8- From every mountainside,

Let freedom ring.

What do you think?

What do you think?

Can you see yourself including these

strategies in your instruction? Why?

Discuss with a partner

Rationale & Benefits

Connects Spoken & Written Language

Strengthens Word Decoding Skills

Practice of suprasegmental aspects

For ELLs: supports both reading and oral language development.

Fosters Fluency through practice and preparation

Increased Fluency = Increased Comprehension

Research: Strong connection to clear gains in reading achievement

Teacher Can View the Reading Process

More Benefits

Practice Builds Confidence

Creates Community

Can be very Authentic

Motivating

It’s Fun!