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Echo or Choral Reading. Kathleen Carper. Echo Reading. Definition: teacher reads aloud small portions of the text to allow students to hear how a text should sound, then students reread the text, mimicking the fluency and intonation of the teacher .
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Echo or Choral Reading Kathleen Carper
Echo Reading Definition: teacher reads aloud small portions of the text to allow students to hear how a text should sound, then students reread the text, mimicking the fluency and intonation of the teacher. Real life example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXKGn0YscHI
Choral Reading Definition: teacher and students read simultaneously, with the teacher gradually letting the students take the lead
Main Goal • to help students become more fluent in reading a particular passage • this is especially beneficial to struggling readers or English as a second language readers
Echo Reading Tonight's the night(Hey!)Let's live it up(Let's live it up)I got my money(My pay)Let's spend it up(Let's spend it up)
Choral Reading I got a feeling That tonight's gonna be a good nightThat tonight's gonna be a good nightThat tonight's gonna be a good, good night