Shared Reading
What is it?
teacher chooses a chart, big book, or other large-print text and reads with students; students are encouraged to join in when they feel comfortable
How does it work?
allows students to see themselves as readers
they will feel comfortable and experience fluency when joining in the reading of familiar, repetitive text
provides students with a safe, non-threatening environment in which to practice new and familiar reading strategies
What does the teacher need to do?
Read large-print text with students
work on decoding unknown words as a class
model reading strategies
Why use it?
allows the teacher to model reading strategies
provides students with essential demonstrations of how reading works and what readers do to construct meaning
teaches students strategies for decoding unknown words and for constructing meaning from the text