Echo and Choral and Repeated Reading with a Wordless Picture Book

The purpose of the lesson is to use the wordless picture book as a basis for the dictation sentences attached to the book. The teacher uses repeated readings with echo and choral reading. Notice how fingerpointing allows children to understand how spoken language maps into written language. Word by Word reading is a problem. Emphasize echo reading. Don't let students continue to read word by word. Use your natural voice to give the proper expression to the reading.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• wordless
• picture
• books
• fluency
• echo
• choral
• reading
• repeated
• word-by-word

[DrBarnes1]

@KCAASE We're also working on charts at that time and trying to use fonts that will produce the correct letter forms. Students produce 20 charts in the course. In the wordless picture book, it is so easy to produce the text as part of a PowerPoint file.

[DrBarnes1]

@KCAASE Good point...fluency with appropriate phrasing is the desired effect. I use this performance in the video to remind the students who are viewing it in my course how this is supposed to work.

[KCAASE]

For the second read, the female adult reader still does the choppy word-by-word reading. Shouldn't she be reading in "phrase" to the child instead. For example, instead of reading "She-is-waiting-for-the-train-­to-stop", shouldn't she read the sentence as follows: "She is waiting / for the train to stop" ? What was the focus again...fluency or word identification?

[KCAASE]

Why is the "computer a" is shown the hand-written text? As far as I know people do not ever print the computer generated letter at all, eg, computer g and a..and others.