read aloud
Voice the words
Read aloud means to speak written words so others can hear them: She read the story aloud to her children.
The phrase distinguishes vocalized reading from silent reading.
It often implies sharing—reading aloud to an audience, even an audience of one.
Would you read aloud the instructions?
- reciteSpeak from memory
- narrateTell a story aloud
- voiceSound from throat
- speakProduce words aloud
- pronounceUtter distinctly, vocalize
storytelling · bedtime · story time · children · picture book · audiobook · lecture · declaim · orate · perform · spoken word · enunciate · articulate · classroom · poetry · passage · chapter · listener
- classroom commandssit down, stand up, raise hand, be quiet, listen
- Reading Termspage turner, cover to cover, bookworm, fine print, bedtime story
- storytelling educationfables, folktales, parables, myths, legends
- circle timestory time, show and tell, weather chart, singing, nursery rhymes
- literacy activitiesbook report, book talk, author visit, book collection
- oral reading skillsvoice modulation, pacing, intonation, emphasis, fluency
vocalization
read aloudsilent reading
Absorbing text without vocalizing
skim · scan · speed read · peruse · browse
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