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!