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With the number of people discussing poetry, I thought teachers might beinterested in the many ways to choral read a selection. Most will be familiar toall but some may be new. (#13 is especially effective in a Remembrance Dayservice. )Choral Reading1. unison• everyone reads the poem together2. two part arrangement• one group speaks alternately with another3. soloist and chorus• one child reads specific lines, rest join in on other lines4. alternate lines• one pair of children reads lines, then next pair reads next lines etc.5. echo reading• one person (or teacher) reads a line and the group echoes back6. one word at a time• each child in turn reads one word of the selection7. closure• one person reads the poetry line while others chime in on the last word8. increasing/decreasing volume9. increasing/decreasing tempo10. effects• accompany choral reading with sound effects, music, movement, gesture,clapping rhythms11. divide into groups• each group comes up with its own interpretation of the poem• each group could also rearrange the order of the lines of the poem12. reader’s theatre• read as part of reader’s theatre with one character or a group chiming inverse at intervals• read poem as different characters or voices – elderly/ a baby/ a child,an optimist/ a pessimist , Little Red Riding Hood/ wolf etc.13. combine selections• combine 2 poems (or songs) with one group reading a line or lines from onepoem and the other group alternating with the second poeme.g. In Flanders Field & Imagine (Lennon)14. round• read in a round with each group startingand ending at different times
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