The NRP review of research at the K-12 level found the following (NRP, p. 3-20):

…procedures that have students reading passages orally multiple times while receiving guidance or feedback from peers, parents, or teachers are effective in improving a variety of reading skills.

Repeated reading procedures have students read the same text multiple times. Examples of the kinds of guidance that teachers or others can give during the procedure include: helping a student pronounce difficult words, alerting a student to punctuation that shows readers where to pause, giving a student information about their reading rate or speed (how fast they read the passage), giving a student information about their reading accuracy (how many words they read correctly), modeling fluent reading for a student, or reading the passage along with a student.

These repeated reading procedures accompanied by guidance from others are very effective. They lead to increases in reading fluency as well as increased word recognition and reading comprehension achievement (p. 3-18).

Other Names for Repeated Reading From the NRP, p. 3-19:

• Paired reading
• Shared reading
• Collaborative oral reading
• Assisted oral reading
• Neurological impress