Developing Reading Power Through Reading Dialogues

By: CECILLE JOY G. DOCDOCIL Teacher I Aglayan Central School

Reading through dialogues is a form of shared oral reading strategy that allows teachers to maximize power in reading with their learners. It Highlights oral exchanges between teachers and learners rather than the one that is common in which teachers are reading the story out loud to learners who are listening and sitting quietly. In other words, teachers and learners tend to switch roles. Learners act as storytellers rather a mere listener. Their conversation includes defining new vocabulary, improving verbal fluency, introducing story components, and developing narrative skills. Additionally, it is based on encouraging learner’s participation, providing feedback, and adjusting verbal interactions based on learner’s ability.

When teachers correctly plan and perform reading through dialogues, studies found out that it can be predominantly effectual at refining reading skills such as print awareness, oral language, and comprehension. Most significantly, it aids teachers how good learners think about the text as they are reading it. The advantages of reading through dialogues are not just for children who are beginning to read. Studies shown that it extended to other ages and to general population including challenged readers, and even learners with special educational needs.

Teaching children to read at an early age is not a struggle when learners are not disturbed by the processes done by the teacher. They often enjoy the stories they are reading and gain confidence because they are actually involved in the telling of the story. To stimulate learners to enjoy reading, the key element is to boost their confidence. Reading is actually an activity that is full of fun, but many of our learners still struggle. Increasing power of reading through reading dialogues should be fun-filled as possible. Most of the time, this reading activity works best to everybody since learners do not actually feel the pressure that they are being taught a skill. They are fully engrossed by the activities and questions during the