Fluency
Voice Jar
- Synopsis: This activity is used to help student practice their prosody (reading with with expression). This activity can be a small group, partner, or one-on-one with a teacher. Students read different pages from their independent reading level using a specific emotion and paying attention to punctuation.
- Materials: Voice jar, cardstock with appropriate leveled passages (both fiction and non-fiction) glued on, and sheets with emotions listed on.
- Directions: The student will randomly pull out a cardstock passage and a slip with an emotion on it. Next the student will silently read the passage for practice. Remind the student to pay attention to punctuation. The student will then reread the passage allowed twice: 1) with the correct emotion they believe is being portrayed and 2) reading the passage in the emotion they pulled out. By having the students read the passage twice once with the real emotion and once with the wrong emotion, students will learn how emotion can change the meaning of something.
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