To support our students in the classroom with their reading, we are going to focus on 3 reading strategies. These are listed below, along with their benefits:
Echo Reading
Echo reading is a re-reading strategy designed to help students develop expressive, fluent reading. In echo reading, the teacher reads a short segment of text, sometimes a sentence or short paragraph, and the children echo it back.
The benefits:
Echo reading takes away the pressure on the student/s and allows the adult to model good expression, tone and speed.
“It shouldn’t be a surprise to learn that students must hear fluent readers begin modelling [first] if they are to understand how they should sound when they read fluently.” (Miller and Veatch).
Choral Reading
Choral reading is reading aloud in unison with a whole class or group of students.
The benefits:
- Choral reading helps build students’ fluency, self-confidence, and motivation.
- Because students are reading aloud together, students who may ordinarily feel self-conscious or nervous about reading aloud have built-in support.
Active Reading
Active reading is the act of reading to understand and evaluate a text. This helps students broaden their understanding of a text or knowledge of a subject.
Simply reading and re-reading the material isn’t the most effective way to understand and learn – using one or more active reading strategies is.
Think of an active reading session as being made up of four separate stages:
(1)Previewing
(2)Reading to organize
(3)Reading to find significant facts
(4)Summarising
The benefits:
By actively and independently reading text, students simultaneously can build their word identification, fluency, vocabulary, and text-dependent comprehension skills.
Please find a our reading newsletters below:
Reading Newsletter – Autumn 25/26