Good-bye Round Robin: 25 Effective Oral Reading Strategies

The authors' aim is to show where oral reading fits in the reading program and share twenty-five of the best strategies for helping children learn to read aloud.

MICHAEL OPITZ is a professor of Elementary Education and Reading at the University of Northern Colorado, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate literacy courses. Michael also works in selective classrooms in the US and abroad planning, teaching and evaluating demonstration lessons focused on different aspects of literacy in K-5 classrooms. He works as a consultant for Great Source Education Group, the US Department of Defense Schools and presents on-line and sponsored workshops for Heinemann. Michael has published several articles in professional and trade journals and presents at state and international conferences.TIMOTHY RASINSKI is a professor of curriculum and instruction at Kent State University. He has written and edited several books on reading education and is coeditor of IRAs elementary-level reading journal, The Reading Teacher.