Positive/Negative Video Activity

There were many positives to choral reading.  First, I like how engaged the students were during the reading.  It maximized their learning experience.  Second, I like how the teacher stopped and took the time to explain specific fluency factors during reading.  For example, before reading the word "big", the teacher explained that since it was in a bigger font, the word should be read louder and stand out.  Also, before approaching a page with quotation marks, she asks students what that meant.  Then, she said because it was in quotation marks, that the words should be read differently as if they were in a different voice.  Moreover, I like how all students have a chance to read the story aloud together in the end.  This gives all students a chance to practice their fluency.  One negative I found with choral reading is it makes it difficult to give an individual assessment.  Because students do not read on their own, and they only read in a group, it makes it very hard for the teacher to judge who is catching o the fluency factors and who is not.