MR. B. ROTHWELL RADIO READING

Purpose is to express discussion in text through performance based learning

STEP #1 (PASSAGE) Students will be given an assignment (exclusive to the student) to read out loud from a scripted passage or in the text book.

STEP #2 (PRACTICE) Each student will practice reading the scripted passage using their best Radio Announcer Voice! This can be done at school at home or both!

STEP #3 (PREPARE) The student radio announcer will prepare …open ended questions related to the passage they are reading to ask the “Audience” (the rest of the class)

STEP #4 (PERFORM) The teacher will hold up an “On Air” sign The student will then read the passage expressively and meaningfully to capture the listening audience

STEP #5 (PITCH) It is the students responsibility to be clear and comprehensible.

STEP #6 (PONDER) Invite the listening audience into a discussion about the passage that the announcer provides. These require the audience to show what they know from the reading.

TECHNOLOGY COURSE EXAMPLE

TEACHER PORTION The rest of this powerpoint is meant for teachers The proceeding 8 slides are meant to show the students and the following slides are meant to help with instruction.

ALTERNATIVES The passage or text could be read to students with visual disabilities. The passage could be recorded using regular inflection from instructor and played back multiple times for students with attention disorders. Students could choose to make illustrations depicting the events in the passage

STUDENTS WITH LIMITED LANGUAGE SKILLS Prepare separate scripts according to language level. Begin at a more basic level and proceed at a slower pace. Give them the questions to ask student audience. Give them separate Teacher tailored questions to answer.

STUDENTS WITH ABOVE AVERAGE LANGUAGE SKILLS Give students topics to research and create their own “teacher approved” script to be read. After presentation …Students will be given previously made scripts or text passages to analyze. Compare and contrast the student version and the text version.

RESOURSES Ellery, V. & Rosenboom, J.L. (2011). Sustaining strategic readers: Techniques for supporting content literacy in grades Newark, DE: International Reading Association.