What is shared reading?Beginning readers should be read to often. A great way to get beginning readers interested in reading is to share read some books. Ask a beginning reader to jump in and read parts when he or she feels comfortable. Encourage a beginning reader to ask questions, talk about the story and pictures, and talk about how a book is similar to another book or something that happened in his or her life.
Shared reading will be different every time depending on your purpose. Most resources show ways to share read with a group of children. Think how powerful shared reading will be with just one child, your child.
Here's a video of my daughter and I share reading a book.
Check out these resources for more information about shared reading:
Shared Reading: An Effective Instructional Model
Books with Rhyming and Repeated words and phrases work well for shared reading.
Books with Rhyming and Repeated words and phrases work well for shared reading.
Offer as much support as necessary.
Joanne Meier has written an excellent article for Reading Rockets called, How to Read with a Beginning Reader.
My daughter loves shared reading. We read together to the dog! :) She especially loves to read Wacky Wednesday -- I'm amazed that she still likes to "look for" all the wacky things. Repetition is a good thing :D
ReplyDeleteMy son also reads to the dog! He also reads to his little sister, which is adorable. It is cute and purposeful. :) His favorite is Brown Bear because he has it memorized.
ReplyDeleteYep, this is great. I have great fun share readings with groups of very young children... it really helps focus them.
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