The student reads aloud in tandem with an accomplished reader. At a student signal,
the helping reader stops reading, while the student
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Jim's Hints for Using...
Paired Reading |
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Using Paired Reading for Peer Tutoring or as a Parent Strategy. Paired
reading is a highly structured but simple strategy that can easily be taught to others-including to school-age
children and youth. If you have a pool of responsible older students available you may want to create a cross-age
peer tutoring program that uses paired reading as its central intervention. Or train parents to use this simple
reading strategy when they read with their children at home. |
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continues on. When the student commits a reading error, the helping reader resumes reading in tandem.
Materials:
Preparation:
- The teacher, parent, adult tutor, or peer tutor working with the student should
be trained in advance to use the paired-reading approach.
Steps in Implementing This Intervention:
Step 1: Sit with the student in a
quiet location without too many distractions. Position the book selected for the reading session so that both you
and the student can easily follow the text.
Step 2: Say to the student, "Now we are going to read aloud together for a little while. Whenever you want to
read alone, just tap the back of my hand like this [demonstrate] and I will stop reading. If you come to a word
you don't know, I will tell you the word and begin reading with you again."
Step 3: Begin reading aloud with the
student. If the student misreads a word, point to the word and pronounce it. Then have the student repeat the word.
When the student reads the word correctly, resume reading through the passage.
Step 4: When the child delivers the appropriate
signal (a hand tap), stop reading aloud and instead follow along silently as the student continues with oral reading.
Be sure occasionally to praise the student in specific terms for good reading (e.g., "That
was a hard word. You did a nice job sounding it out!").
Step 5: If, while reading alone, the
child either commits a reading error or hesitates for longer than 5 seconds, point to the error-word and pronounce
it. Then tell the student to say the word. When the student pronounces the error-word correctly, begin reading
aloud again in unison with the student.
Step 6: Continue reading aloud with the
student until he or she again signals to read alone.
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References
Topping, K. (1987). Paired reading: A powerful technique for parent use.
Reading Teacher,
40, 608-614.
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