A choral-read is a group read-aloud. Students get to practice a range of expressiveness, pausing, pacing, and other aspects of fluency.

A table read is the first time students sit down together to read their individual parts.

Reading pedagogy refers to this initial practice session as the first repeated reading; I prefer the term “table read” as that is what professional theater people call it the first time actors sit down to read their parts.

(And it sounds more fun, too!)

Enjoy this brief clip that demonstrates choral-reading:

Have you been following our Reader’s Theater blog series?

In case you missed it, here are the previous Reader’s Theater posts:

• Reader’s Theater Day 1: Multiple Reading Opportunities
• Reader’s Theater Day 2: Echo-Reading