{"id":1535,"date":"2015-09-24T15:51:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T22:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/?p=1535"},"modified":"2015-09-24T15:51:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T22:51:47","slug":"choral-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/2015\/09\/24\/choral-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Choral Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #993366;\">What is choral reading?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em>&#8220;Choral reading is reading aloud in unison with a whole class or group of students.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Each day\u00a0we read chorally together in two different genres:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a storybook<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our storybook is photocopied for each child to read along with, and at the end of the week, we bring it home. \u00a0Our storybook this week was <a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/2015\/09\/24\/choral-reading\/i-see\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1538\">I See<\/a>&#8211;their job is to read the book 3 times to anyone\/anything (a stuffy, a pet, a friend, a relative&#8230;)! \u00a0Practice&#8230;practice&#8230;practice!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a poem\/song<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our Poem of the Week comes home each Monday in their green duo-tangs&#8211;their job is to read it each night and the Grade Ones also need to fill in the missing words on the back (K&#8217;s are welcome to try this&#8211;but it is not required!).<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Why use choral reading?<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><em>It can provide less skilled readers the opportunity to practice and receive support before being required to read on their own.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>It provides a model for fluent reading as students listen.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>It helps improve the ability to read sight words.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Although it is intended for teachers, you can check out this link for more information:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readingrockets.org\/article\/fluency-instructional-guidelines-and-student-activities\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.readingrockets.org\/article\/fluency-instructional-guidelines-and-student-activities<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your support in our home reading program!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Reading!\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/files\/2013\/11\/smiley-face-reading-a-book.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-105\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/files\/2013\/11\/smiley-face-reading-a-book-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"smiley-face-reading-a-book\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is choral reading? &#8220;Choral reading is reading aloud in unison with a whole class or group of students.&#8221; Each day\u00a0we read chorally together in two different genres: a storybook Our storybook is photocopied for each child to read along with, and at the end of the week, we bring it home. \u00a0Our storybook this &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/2015\/09\/24\/choral-reading\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3048,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3048"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1542,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions\/1542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}