Choral Reading
Strengths:
- Can be done across grade levels and content levels
- Helps develop fluency
- Helps students read with more expression
- Struggling readers receive support by reading in unison with others
- Helps ELL hear and practice proper pronunciation
- Can build confidence
- Allows children who are shy or uncomfortable reading aloud in front of the whole class practice their reading skills
Weaknesses:
- The stories used in choral readings cannot be too long or difficult as it is important that all students read together and are able to read fluently but also comprehend what they are reading.
- The teacher must have several copies of the book
- Students may read the words on the page along with everyone else but not actually comprehend the story.
- During choral reading, the students are not able to stop, go back to a previous page, re-read, read at their own pace, etc.
- The students may put more focus on reading at the same rate as their peers instead of comprehending the story.
Fluency rubric
Strengths:
- The teacher models what all of the scores should sound like based on the rubrics criteria.
- The scores on the rubric had explanations.
- Helps provide a target for what students should be sounding like.
- The rubrics could be changed to target different areas (first stopping at punctuation and pause at commas and then have them focus on their prosody)
Weaknesses:
- The teacher kept using the word “interesting” to describe the way in which she read. For example, she would say, “did I sound interesting?”
- Students may believe they earn a certain score while their partner does not think so which could cause students to either become argumentative or unwilling to want to read aloud in front of that peer.
- Even though the teacher modeled what each score would sound like all students have different interpretations.
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