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Fluency: Connected Text, Choral Reading ActivityFluency: Connected Text, Choral Reading Activity
Publisher
Florida Center for Reading Research
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Grade
K - 1st
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
Activities & Projects
Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
30 mins
Instructional Strategies
Collaborative Learning
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Year
2005
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Fluency: Connected Text, Choral Reading

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Set up beginning readers into choral reading groups to aid with fluency. Scholars each have a copy of the text, and one begins reading as the rest of the group choral reads along. They each take a turn being the first reader, allowing for peer guidance and support.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

choral reading, intonation, reading connected text, reading fluency

Additional Tags

choral reading, expression, fluency, intonation, connected text, phrasing, english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Create reading groups homogenous; use books or passages targeted for their skill level

Classroom Considerations

  • Requires a text or reading passage

Pros

  • It can be used with any book or reading passage

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RF.K.4 RF.1.4.b

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