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Task :

 

Listen and follow the poem silently as it is being read aloud.

 

Features :

When one really understands a passage / poem, one should be able to express its meaning.  Expression is important.  One can express excitement, boredom, grouchiness, happiness, weariness, simply by the way you speak.  Reading aloud expressively also means being able to produce the sounds correctly and clearly.

 

Reading to a group :

When one reads to an audience.  One must be able to get the thought, mood across to the listeners.  The writer gives the words but the meaning is given by the reader.

 

Suggestions for Better Reading Aloud :

Know the through meaning before you start reading

Read slowly and clearly enough so that everyone can hear you

Breathe as naturally enough.  Do not rush.

Hold your book correctly.  Not to far away or down below.

Be relaxed as you read.  Enjoy your reading.

Look up occasionally.

If there are amusing parts wait for the laughter to stop before you start again.

 

Choral Reading and its Types :

Poetry and must of prose should be read aloud for full appreciation.  One has to imagine the sounds in a poem when it is being read silently.

 

Task :  Try reading these lines silently and then orally.

 

Out Written

 

He drew a circle that shut me out-

Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout,

But Love and I had wit to win:

We drew a circle that took him in.

(Edwin Markham)

 

The sounds in the poem give it much of its beauty.

 

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