By reading the text aloud, the teacher provides a full support for struggling readers and makes the text more accessible for them. When students get to look at the text while listening to someone read it, they can process the information more effectively and understand how it should be read.

Reading aloud helps students develop language sense (as they hear the ways words are used, pronounced, and interpreted). A more knowledgeable other’s way of emphasizing and pausing at appropriate places shows students how punctuation and different sentence structures contribute to the meaning of the text.