Shared Reading
How it works
Students informed of assessment throughout lessons
Text can be used for days depending on complexity
Group and paired up readings, followed by reflection for students to practice new reading strategies
Teacher reads text with students joining in, or students read passages orally or silently with support from the teacher
Material
Must be visible to students (e.g. on a projector)
Short enough for students to examine critically (e.g. short stories, excerpts, newspaper articles, poetry, etc.)
At, or slightly above student level
Teaching Points
• strategies to support comprehension
• critical-literacy skills
• text features
• phrasing, fluency, and intonation
• word-solving strategies
• reading and writing connections
• questioning the text
• personal responses
Process
After Reading
Link to writer's craft in preparation for future writing lessons
Make connections between new behaviours and strategies and students' independent reading
Have students respond to text through discussions and making connections to prior learning, personal experience, community and the world
During Reading
Then,
Teach and model important reading behaviours and strategies (e.g. rereading, making connections, inferring, summarizing)
Return to analyze relevant portions of text
Initially,
Stop reading and have students confirm/correct predictions
Read text with class
Before Reading
Review old reading strategies and other prior knowledge
Students make predictions based on genre, author, title, and topic of text
Introduce text
State purpose and benefits of lesson
