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3/26 Blog:

Choral reading

Strengths:
Choral reading is a way to help children focus on comprehension.
The teacher modeled how to read fluently first, giving them an idea of what it means to read fluently.
The teacher helped draw the children's attention to parts of the text that are important for the children's comprehension. For example, she talked about the book having quotation marks in it and had the children talk about what those marks meant before reading through the quote.

Weaknesses:
When using choral reading, the text is not can't be very long or difficult of a text as the children would not be able to all read together and they would begin to fall apart or get tired of reading as a group.
The students could be more focused on reading at the same rate as the other children and no longer be focused on the comprehension aspect.
When children are focused on reading together, they are not able to stop and comprehend or read at their own pace.

Fluency Rubric:

Strengths:
Modeling all of the scores and how they would sound based on the criteria in the rubric.
Explained what their scores meant.

Weaknesses:
Because the students were all in a group together, the teacher cannot really tell who is understanding her lesson and who is not at that point.