Teaching Kids Choral Readings

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Ann Kennedy on behalf of expertvillage.com and this session we'll be talking about rhyming and reading games. Choral readings. We just learned about echo readings where you say a phrase as bumpety bumpety bump and the child then repeats that phrase every time you come to it in a poem or whatever it is. Now we're going to learn a little bit about choral readings. What's a choral reading? What's a chorus? Everybody sings in harmony and sings the same thing. So I may teach a wonderful little song or rhyme, something as simple as five little turkeys standing at the door, one waddled off and then there were four. Can you say that with me? And because it's repetitive, because it's simple, because they interact with their hands, it's easier to learn to choral read and what else are they doing? They're watching your mouth and how you pronounce words, they're watching your actions, they're listening, they're getting totally immersed to be able to learn to read, so, let's try that together. Five little turkeys, standing at the door, one waddled off and then there were four. Very good. Could we do an echo with this? Not as easily, we could, but it would be very difficult. Choose, choose, choose, when you're going to do your echo reading, usually something like what I showed you before, bumpety bumpety bump, the same phrase over and over again. This, they'd have to know how to subtract and the words are a little bit different but the rhyme scheme is the same. So that's a choral reading."