Value, Nature, And Role Of Oral Reading/ Skills of oral reading Flashcards
Enunciation
Uttering of articulate sounds
Inflection
Change in tone or pitch of voice
Intonation
Reading or reciting in a particular tone
Spoken word is used in:
Mass communication, entertainment, education, government, and religion
Oral reading in business
Broadcasters reading from a manuscript, teletype, TelePrompTer, or cue card
How to read a radio script effectively?
“Make it sound as if it were not being read.” - Lowell Thomas (narrator for old Movietone newsreels)
Reading at home
Reading aloud at home is just as important as reading aloud in public
It brings family members closer together
The nature of oral reading is?
Practical, cohesive, and interpretive
Oral reading is practical because?
It provides a broad background for children, imparting information, providing mental images, and underlining principles that parents wish to instill in them
Oral reading is cohesive because?
It cements relationships between parents and children and between siblings
It provides a common collection of memories that can be recalled at will
Oral reading is interpretive because?
The intonation and inflection in the voice of the reader brings the writer’s artistic intention and the reader’s understanding of it to realization
Improves pronunciation
Correct ____ and ____ are of utmost importance
Pronunciation and enunciation
A shared oral reading experience canbringd people’s minds into?
Unison
A minister proves scriptures with scripture,?
Categorizing it into known doctrines, and distilling from it principles by which to live
Interpretive reading creates?
An illusion
The interpretive reader attempts to?
Express the full intent of the author
Since oral reading is a form of communication?
It is usually social in nature
Masters of interpretive reading make?
Whatever they are doing seem fresh, new, and easy
Oral reading has?
An individual function
Oral reading reflects an individual’s?
Reading characteristics, personality traits, and experiences
For students of oral reading, a knowledge of _____ works of great writers, _____ and ____, is helpful
The best, past and present
What you read will affect what you?
Think
Good literature will increase your?
Vocabulary
The more you read aloud?
The greater fluency you will achieve
The more leadership skills you will develop
One’s voice is affected by his?
Attitude toward himself, toward his material, and toward his audience
No ideal ____ voice exist
Voice
Vocal sound produced depends on?
The length and thickness of a person’s vocal cords
Vocal sounds are amplified by?
Resonators in the throat, nose, and mouth
Articulators
Lips, teeth, tongue, and hard and solar palates
Divide stream of sound into syllables and words
You can practice and improve it by?
Developing muscle responsible for monitoring the flow of air, the diaphragm
The quality of one’s voice and reading delivery is affected by?
Volume and the rate of speed at which one reads
A weak or strong voice is ____ not inheroted
Developed
Rules for preparing a reading:
Read material as you would speak it to a friend
Pronounce words carefully: focusing on consonants of unstressed syllables (-ing)
Separate your words
Strive for a clear, smooth presentation
Voice quality is also affected by?
Pitch and resonance
Pitch
Tone of one’s voice
Determined by frequency of vibrations of vocal cords
Stridency
Habitually shrill quality found in voices of some people
Sotto voice
Tate whisper, uses a breathiness that identifies the utterance as a whisper
A nasal sound is caused by?
Allowing too much air to escape through one’s nose
The key to many speech problems?
Relaxation
Art of communication involves the use of ____ language as well as _____
Body, voice
Most important in communication of expression?
Breathing
One of body’s primary tasks
