Fluency
Echo reading is a wonderfully supportive strategy that works well for children who benefit from extra support. The teacher plays a key role in providing assistance during this activity.
Echo reading gives students a model voice to hear in their head to refer to while they are reading.
Benefits of Echo Reading
Echo reading is a fantastic strategy for helping students improve their accuracy and prosody. With this approach, the teacher reads the text fluently first, allowing students to hear how it should sound. This gives children the chance to listen to the text being read with expression and tone, helping them develop these important skills.
A teacher or a more capable reader can be the one leading the echo reading.
Echo Reading is a great strategy that allows students to listen to parts of the text being read out loud before they give it a go themselves.
