Using Choral Reading with Students with Exceptionalities to Improve Reading Fluency

Choral reading, a reading strategy that involves two or more students reading a passage in unison, where striving readers following the reading model provided by more proficient readers in a group, has long been recognized as a vehicle for improving fluency among students with exceptionalities (Kodal, & Akyol, 2018). This instructional strategy, which is the topic of this paper, provides the interpersonal modeling needed by learners with exceptionalities, while providing a safe space for internalization of fluency skills to occur.