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Just what it says. Might be interesting ways to share teacher- or volunteer-created read-alouds for kids who need the support, or read-alouds of kids who can speak, who have been practicing repeated reading to build fluency (motivation and utility).

Taylor, a young girl who struggles with reading, engaged in repeated reading until she could read this text aloud fluently. Her tutor helped her record it and upload it to Youtube. Strong motivation for the research-supported but often boring repeated reading of text.

This little girl has a great deal of difficulty with word identification. She is doing repeated reading of easy text to increase her sight word vocabulary, general fluency, and expression.

One way to support wide reading developing readers is to pursue their interests. Search "videos with onscreen lyrics" and add the singer, music type, title, etc. This broad search of just "videos with onscreen lyrics yielded 150 million results--that's a lot of motivating text for a lot of readers.

Key search terms to find music with lyrics as reading source material.