Shared Reading

Shared Reading

Positives
1. creates positive learning environment (community spirit)
  1. "It can open up new worlds to children and motivate them to master new skills..." Thompson, thornley and McIIwrick
2. creates positive attitudes towards reading
3. Helps teach children strategies needed to read
4. Gains confidence
5. Helps children to respond thoughtfully and critically to text
6. Helps children to develop their visual- phonological awareness
7. Models fluent and emotive reading
8. Teaches specific vocab
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Intro
1. Help children to understand the purpose of reading
2. Must be exciting
3. Not too long
Reading
1. Read once through focusing on difficult words, comprehension and enjoyment
  1. Then read more than once focusing on different aspects such as punctuation, pictures
2. If it has rhyme read altogether
Follow up
1. Dramatization of story
2. Shared writing based on text
3. Improvisation music to the drama
4. Word level work (on words that they need to focus on)
5. retelling the story to a small group
In shared reading teacher leads reading while students read actively (silently if they can).
1. all students need to be able to see the text (enlarged)

Resource summary

	Created by kteegrant almost 11 years ago