Bridget Daugherty: 01-30-08 Choral Reading Blog
During the choral reading activity my group read The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss. When reading the story we looked at different aspects such as pitch, tempo, tone and rhyme. After talking as a group and re-reading verses of the story several times, we came to several conclusions. First we decided that the tempo we were reading at was fast. We next looked at pitch and found that repeating words such as “feet, feet, feet” were higher and faster. We also noticed that there was a lot of stress put on the rhyming words because they were fun to say.
After looking at the eighth grade GLCE’s I realized that by working in our small groups and listening to the class I was able to extend my speaking, listening and viewing skills. When my group was discussing The Foot Book, we talked a lot about how much focus we put on the rhyming and repeated words, a writing style Dr. Seuss is famous for. We talked about how students can learn from this particular structure of writing what rhyming words are and how to best emphasize that they rhyme; such as using each rhyming word at the end of a sentence. After looking at each factor that determined how we were interpreting the writing, we were ready to deliver our presentation through a choral reading.
After performing our choral reading session, I was able to watch and listen to other groups perform theirs. It was amazing to know that we were all performing some styles of choral reading and to listen to how different they all were from each other. After watching all the groups go, I took note, that this type of reading would be a great way to reach out to different types of readers. With the great amount of variety, it would reach out to both strong and weak readers.
Overall, I believe, choral reading could be very successful in the classroom .By taking the time to perform the stories in TE, I truly saw the benefits. It was hard to believe, well reading through the GLCE’s, that such a small activity, covered speaking, listening and viewing skills.
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Bridget- I think your ideas about using this type of reading exercise were really interesting. I also think choral reading is a good activity to use for all reading styles. Each students will be able to get something from these types of activities. Depending on what type of choral reading that the teacher decides to do every student can benefit from it.
I agree that it was "fun" to leisten to the many other creative and interesting apporaches others took to the activity. I choral reading is a great way to get students both into the reading materials, but also is helpful to increase fluency, building reading confidence and typically increases participation in the activity. All-in-all, choral reading has a variety of postive outcomes and is a great activity for the classroom.
Bridget- I enjoyed making connections with your post since we were in the same group. I didn't fully consider the fact that Dr. Seuss is famous for his rhyming style and that developing children's listening, speaking, and viewing skills. I also liked your comment about accommodating different readers by performing different varieties of choral reading. I noticed the variety in class but didn't make the connection on using that in the classroom to reach all types of readers.
How does this relate to the other things we have been reading about and talking about in class?
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