Question

A third-grade teacher notices that many students in class exhibit poor reading fluency when asked to read sentences or longer passages aloud and plans to incorporate activities to support fluent reading behaviors. Which three of the following activities best accomplish the teacher's objective?

A. Encouraging students to record events from a story while they read.
B. Engaging in choral reading as a class for a page of text.
C. Asking questions during and after reading a familiar text.
D. Modeling one sentence at a time aloud for students to imitate.
E. Providing students with a script to practice and read orally in front of their peers.

Answer 1

To support fluent reading behaviors, the teacher can incorporate choral reading, modeling, and providing students with scripts.

Step-by-step explanation:

To support fluent reading behaviors, the third-grade teacher can incorporate the following activities:

1. Engaging in choral reading as a class for a page of text. This allows students to practice reading aloud in a low-stakes, informal, and more comfortable way.
2. Modeling one sentence at a time aloud for students to imitate.
3. This helps students develop fluency and accuracy in reading by imitating the teacher's modeling.
4. Providing students with a script to practice and read orally in front of their peers.
5. This activity gives students an opportunity to practice reading fluently and confidently in a more formal setting.