Department of Education

Resources - Choral Reading

Choral Reading Method	Information for parents about choral reading.
Connect With Low-Literate Families: A Three-Tiered Approach	This lesson involves giving children stories to read at home to enhance the home-school connection. Scroll down to see choral reading components of the lesson. Grades K-2.
Don't Feed the Alligators	In this cross-curricular activity, students learn about the Okefenokee Swamp and the alligators that live there. They will also have the opportunity to participate in a choral reading. Grade K.
Fall Fluency for Teachers	This article briefly discusses echo reading, choral reading, reader's theater, and partner reading.
The Importance of Using Multiple Methods of Reading Instruction	This article examines three reading strategies: guided reading, choral reading, and reader's theater. Suggestions and tips for each strategy are also provided.
Improving Fluency Through Group Literary Performance	In this lesson Bill Martin Jr.'s picture books provide opportunities for students to hear fluent reading modeled then to join in the readings through literary performance. Students participate in shared and choral reading, as well as readers theater. Grades K-2.
Multipurpose Poetry: Introducing Science Concepts and Increasing Fluency	In this lesson, students work in small groups to develop a choral reading of two poems about an assigned insect. Grades 3-5.
Reading Variations	Brief descriptions of choral reading, echo reading, and shared reading.

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