Shared reading is an instructional approach where teachers read with students to enhance their reading skills. The process involves a series of steps before, during, and after the reading to ensure effective learning.
Focus on one major teaching point per reading lesson
Strategies Taught
Reading and writing connections
Word solving strategies
Text Features
Phrasing, Fluency, and intonation
Critical-Literacy Skills
Strategies to support comprehension
Personal Responses
Questioning the text
Student Responsibility
Interaction
Active Participation
Conducting a Shared Reading Lesson
After Reading
If appropriate, assign a response activity for assessment purposes
Make the connection for students between the new behaviours or strategies learned in the shared reading lesson and their independent reading.
Give students an opportunity to respond to the text
During Reading
Ensure that the lesson is interactive
Teach and model or demonstrate the relevant behaviours and strategies used by strategic readers to comprehend text (e.g., rereading, making connections, inferring, summarizing).
Read the text to the students or have the class or group read the text aloud together
Before Reading
Have students make predictions based on their knowledge