Using tape assisted reading

Tape assisted reading can be used as an individual or group reading activity.

• fluency
• proper phrasing and expression, and
• recognition of sight words

Here are some materials to use with tape assisted reading:

• Cassette tape of a reading passage

  • interesting to the learner
  • recorded by a skilled reader
• Paper copy of the same reading passage
• Tape recorder

1. Listen to the tape while following along on the paper copy of the passage.
2. Then read along with the tape. Variations
   • Listen to the tape and read along with it, reading just a little slower so that you are "echoing" the taped reading.
   • Try to stay one or two syllables ahead so that the tape is an "echo".
3. Read the passage without the tape.
4. Repeat Steps 2 through 4 as needed.

• Using echo reading

• Robson, DeVergilio, and DeButts 1990
• Malmstrom 1991

• Task module: Using tape assisted reading
• In task module: Developing reading skills
• In task module: Developing literacy skills, by Martha A. Lane (contributor), Delle P. Matthews (contributor), Leah B. Walter (contributor), Glenys Waters (contributor), Anne Klaassens (editor), and Trudy K. Stewart (editor, contributor)
• In task module: Teaching people to read and write, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler)
• In task module: Implementing a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler)
• In modular book: Implement a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler) and Leah B. Walter (compiler)
• In bookshelf: Literacy

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