Choral+Reading


 * Choral Reading **





 Choral reading is a great tool for teachers to use to promote oral reading. Choral reading gives students the opportunity to read aloud in class without feeling embarrassed or anxious.

"When students participate in choral reading on a regular and repeated basis, students will internalize the fluent reading of the text being read and begin to transfer their developing fluency to other texts." -ReadStrong The following is an example of an appropriate choral reading for 4th grade ESL students.

By: Anonymous Choral Reading Grade: 4 Proficiency Level: Moderate English Proficiency
 * A Comparison **

I'd rather lay out here among the trees, With the singing birds and the bumble bees, A-knowing that I can do as I please, Than to live what folks call a life of ease - Up there in the city. For I don't exactly understand Where the comfort is for any man, In walking hot bricks and using a fan, And enjoying himself as he says he can - Up there in the city. It's kind of lonesome, maybe, you'll say A-livin' out here day after day, In this kind of easy careless way, But an hour out here's better than a day - Up there in the city. As for that, just look at the flowers around A-peepin' their heads up all over the ground, And the fruit a-bendin' the trees away down; You don't find such things as these in town - Or, rather, in the city. As I said afore, such things as these - The flowers, the birds, and the bumble bees, And a-livin' out here among the trees, Where you can take your ease and do as you please - Make it better than in the city. References: Apples for the Teacher (2010//). Children’s earth day poems:// // A comparison //. Retrieved from []

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