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  2. Cold reading (theatrical) - Wikipedia

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    Cold reading (theatrical) A play's inaugural reading held at a used bookstore in Boise, Idaho. Theatrical cold reading is reading aloud from a script or other text with little or no rehearsal, [1] practice or study in advance. Sometimes also referred to as sight reading, it is a technique used by actors and other performers in theatre ...

  3. Spoken word - Wikipedia

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    Spoken word is a "catchall" term that includes any kind of poetry recited aloud, including poetry readings, poetry slams, jazz poetry, pianologues, musical readings, and hip hop music, and can include comedy routines and prose monologues. [1] Unlike written poetry, the poetic text takes its quality less from the visual aesthetics on a page, but ...

  4. Stage reading - Wikipedia

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    A stage reading of a play in Washington, D.C., held by Solas Nua. A stage reading, also known as a staged reading, is a form of theatre without sets or full costumes. [1] The actors, who read from scripts, may be seated, stand in fixed positions, or incorporate minimal stage movement. There is an overlap with the term play reading, [2] One US ...

  5. Readers theater - Wikipedia

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    Readers theater is a style of theater in which the actors present dramatic readings of narrative material without costumes, props, scenery, or special lighting. Actors use only scripts and vocal expression to help the audience understand the story. Readers theater is also known as "theater of the mind", "interpreters theater", and "story ...

  6. Jim Trelease - Wikipedia

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    Jim Trelease was born on March 23 in Orange, New Jersey, to George Edward and Jane (Conlan) Trelease, a Cornish American family. [2] In 1945, his family moved to Union, New Jersey, where he attended St. Michael Parish School. In 1952, his family moved to North Plainfield, New Jersey. Here, he attended Stoney Brook Junior High and North ...

  7. Reading comprehension - Wikipedia

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    Reading comprehension is the ability to process written text, understand its meaning, and to integrate with what the reader already knows. [1][2][3][4] Reading comprehension relies on two abilities that are connected to each other: word reading and language comprehension. [5] Comprehension specifically is a "creative, multifaceted process" that ...

  8. Dual-route hypothesis to reading aloud - Wikipedia

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    Reading is an area that has been extensively studied via the computational model system. The dual-route cascaded model (DRC) was developed to understand the dual-route to reading in humans. [14] Some commonalities between human reading and the DRC model are: [5] Frequently occurring words are read aloud faster than non-frequently occurring words.

  9. Sight-reading - Wikipedia

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    In music literature, the term "sight-reading" is often used in a generic sense to refer to the ability to read and perform instrumental and vocal music at first sight, which involves converting musical information from sight to sound. [ 1 ] However, some authors, including Udtaisuk, prefer to use more specific terms such as "sight-playing" and ...