I've been reading with great interest everyone's view on the differences and value of both oral and silent reading. I'm thinking about how that relates to the DRA testing I do with my students. For levels A-16, the text is read completely aloud while I'm marking miscues, and then the child is asked to do a retelling. The switch is made at level 18 for the text to be read silently first, then the retelling for comprehension assessment, and then read a few pages out loud. What's interesting is we had a huge debate at one point when the retelling should be done for levels 18+. Some teachers were having the children read silently, go right on to reading the few pages aloud, and then do the retelling piece. Others were having them read silently, do the retelling, and then read the pages out loud to mark miscues. It doesn't seem like a huge difference, but it was. What we were finding was that students who had the opportunity to read out loud before the retelling, actually had better comprehension than those who retold only after silent reading. Why do you think that is? And why do you think the DRA assessment directions actually say to do the retelling before the oral reading for those levels? Martha
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