Reading Aloud | Reading Rockets
Reading aloud is one of the most important things parents and teachers can do with children. Reading aloud builds many important foundational skills, introduces vocabulary, provides a model of fluent, …
Revisiting Read Alouds: Instructional Strategies that Encourage ...
Learn about evidence-based practices that encourage first graders’ engagement with texts. The authors review reading as a transactional process, revisit the benefits of reading aloud to students, discuss …
Fluency: Instructional Guidelines and Student Activities
The best strategy for developing reading fluency is to provide your students with many opportunities to read the same passage orally several times. To do this, you should first know what to have your …
Fluency: In Practice - Reading Rockets
Read aloud daily to your students. By reading effortlessly and with expression, we are modeling for our students how a fluent reader sounds during reading. After you model how to read the text, you must …
Hints on How to Read Aloud to a Group - Reading Rockets
Listening to literature being read aloud is one of the most valuable and pleasurable experiences beginning readers and writers can have. Read alouds should be part of every child’s day. Story time, …
Reading Aloud to Build Comprehension - Reading Rockets
The last section shows how to apply this research to your work with children. We will discuss the important benefits of reading aloud; how to choose good books to read aloud; how to model or teach …
Great Read Alouds for First Graders - Reading Rockets
Great Read Alouds for First Graders First grade is when many children put it all together and begin to read independently. But reading aloud with first graders remains not only a pleasurable but an …
Text-to-Speech Technology: What It Is and How It Works
Text-to-speech (TTS) is a type of assistive technology that reads digital text aloud. It’s sometimes called “read aloud” technology. TTS can take words on a computer or other digital device and convert them …
Fluency Norms Chart (2017 Update) - Reading Rockets
ORF involves having students read aloud from an unpracticed passage for one minute. An examiner notes any errors made (words read or pronounced incorrectly, omitted, read out of order, or words …
Using Think-Alouds to Improve Reading Comprehension
Students need to think while they are reading. By using modeling, coached practice, and reflection, you can teach your students strategies to help them think while they read and build their comprehension.