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chorally

chorally

1 6.8
In a way a choir sings together
  • adverb
  • /ˈkɔːrəli/
: coralmente
  • Ms. Jamison's strategic pacing of reading and rereading chorally, followed by neighbor check-ins before going "public," kept students actively engaged and focused throughout the activity and minimized off-task behavior.
  • read chorally

Examples

  • Learners know the routine well and respond on time, and often chorally, suggesting that it is a rehearsed interaction style (McHoul, 1978).

    Academic text (2015)
  • We were only chorally trained," Nguyen said.

    Blog text (4)
  • Now, to practice together, read the first scene as a group (chorally).

    Fiction book (2002)
  • After reviewing the questions that the teacher asked at the beginning of the story, the teacher and students would begin reading the assigned chapters chorally.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Becky and her students sing the song chorally from the chart and from their own personal copies.

    Academic text (2013)
  • The two students began each session by chorally reading aloud an unfamiliar passage twice with the RA.

    Academic text (2004)
  • Distribution of classroom means for the amount of total print reading relative to the mean amount of print reading across the sample. Results suggested that a far greater proportion of time spent orally reading print was done chorally versus individually in these classrooms.

    Academic text (2014)
  • After a few minutes of work, students call out their responses, and Becky charts the words on the dry-erase board. Students chorally read the words they have brainstormed and end with one or more renditions of the song.

    Academic text (2013)
  • After reviewing a focal phonetic pattern at desks arranged in groups of four, students formed a circle on the carpet to chorally read a decodable book.

    Academic text (2013)
  • The children sang the song chorally during the school assembly.

Surface Forms

chorally positive

Morphology

chorally = choral (transparent) = chorus + al + ly

The adverb is straightforwardly formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'choral'.

Etymology

Chorally comes from choral, which comes from chorus, meaning 'group of singers' or 'choir'. So, to do something chorally is to perform it together like a choir or by a chorus.