Students followed
these steps during the repeated
reading with lyrics as passages
stage.
1. On the first day, students listened
to the song as they followed
along reading with the
lyrics. While listening to the song,
students had an opportunity to hear
appropriate phrasing and intonation
along with rate and accurate reading
of text. The teacher, then, orally read
the lyrics (as-is, without removing
any chorus) to the students, to ensure
that the students understood that they
would not be singing the lyrics but
rather reading what they heard as a
song using the tune and melody to
help phrase their reading to make
their repeated reading more prosodic.
Such adult modeling tended to increase
fluency effect sizes by more
than three times than when fluency
was modeled by peers (Therrien,
2004); thus making teacher modeling
an integral part of increasing fluency