Wednesday, January 30, 2008
My thoughts on Choral Reading
While I find choral reading nice in the sense of shaking things up, I found it difficult to concentrate. It was fun trying to pick out exactly what each part was going to be, but I'm not sure what the exact point of choral reading is. It seems that when listening and/or coming up with a strategy the story was lost. I couldn't even tell you right now what our story was about, or any of the names of the other stories that I heard. I wonder looking back if I was supposed to be picking up on what they were saying or how they were saying it. Is there a way to do both? How can I as a teacher make choral reading both fun and beneficial??
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I think Becky addressed some important points. At first, I didn't quite understand the point of choral readings either, but then I kinda thought that it's a good way for students to recognize that people do read differently. I think as a group project and presentation, it also builds communication skills and social skills among students that will help benefit them later on in life. Also commenting on Carrie's comment, I think it's a good way for younger kids, especially, because it helps them to remember stories, rhymes, and songs that may be done in a choral reading manner. With children being able to recall stories, it also helps them with literacy in the long run. But as Becky said, I believe it would take awhile to prepare your students to do something like this, and within 3 hours it wouldn't quite work with a group of younger students.
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