Shared Reading
Shared reading is an
integral part of whole class instruction. It occurs when students join in
reading a book or text piece with a teacher or another experienced reader.
Students and teacher read an enlarged text,
and all must be able to see the text clearly.
Learn more about Big Books and Comprehension Posters.
A text may be reread many times as long as
the students continue to find the experience enjoyable and purposeful. Because of the noncompetitive learning
environment with shared reading, risk-taking, mistakes, and approximations are
considered part of the learning experience, and are not seen as failures.
Shared reading can be
used with any level or ability and any class group. Because the experience takes place in a relaxed and secure
environment, it develops positive feelings toward reading.This is particularly important for
pre-emergent and early-emergent readers who may be just beginning formal
education or struggling with learning to read.
Shared reading provides
many opportunities to model fluent reading.
It is an excellent vehicle for showing students how to use strategies
that integrate meaning, and how to use structural and visual information to
problem-solve on unfamiliar words.
A number of teaching
points can be consistently reinforced during shared reading.
- Aspects of language
(structure, rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration)
Learn more about Songs &
Rhymes. - Concepts about print
(directionality, one-to-one matching, spatial concepts, punctuation, words, and
letters)
- Clarification of concepts
(whole story or individual words)
- Reading strategies
(predicting; locating; checking; confirming; self-correcting at the letter,
word, or full-text level)
- Informational skills
(gained from title, Contents page, cover illustrations, Index, and Glossary)
- Extension of both sight
and listening vocabulary.
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