Choral Reading

Just like Carrie, I had never heard of choral reading before this class. At first, I was a little confused as to how it would benefit children or how and why it would be used in the classroom. Yet, after reading the poem out loud with the rest of the class, it made me realize that not everyone does read and interpret the text the same way. I was a little naive to not consider that every doesn't read the same. By participating in the activities, it allowed me to see that people can come up with several ways to read a text. For instance, some of the groups had one person read and add a person with a new part, and other groups had a leader and then people repeated a part. Depending on the text of the book, children can learn more about emphasis, as well as about expression within a text.

By going to placement, I have heard some students read out loud, and it's very interesting to see how some children will skip over periods and have a long run-on sentence. Other students would see the period and pause a very long time before reading the next sentence, and there was a variety of students that did and didn't read with expression. Sometimes I forget that because I know how to read, obviously children's reading abilities aren't the same as mine; and the choral reading definitely helped me to realize that.