Are you looking for some classroom Shared Reading tips to use with your students? Shared Reading is an instructional approach in which the teacher models the strategies and skills of proficient readers.
Reading should be an enjoyable experience, so why not introduce kids to a variety of authors, illustrators, and types of texts. With Shared Reading children are taught the reading process systematically and explicitly on how to become better readers and writers themselves.
Shared Reading can be used for fiction and nonfiction literature. The strategies used target the kind of text that is being read to students. Both types of text are laid out in three days of instruction that include tips to use before reading, during reading and after reading.
Here is an example of just one day of a classroom shared reading tips for a fictional text read to students.
Fictional Text: Day 1
Day 1 Before Reading Strategies: Directionality & Text Conventions
- Hold up the book
Possible Questions: What can you tell about this book by looking at the cover? Does the cover of the book remind you of any other book you have read?
- Read the title
Possible Questions: Where is the title of the book? What does the title tell us?
- Read the names of the author and illustrator
Possible Questions: Where is the author’s name on this book? Where is the illustrator’s name? What does the illustrator do in a book?
- Open the book
Possible Questions:Â Where is the top-bottom of the page? Where does the print start-end on the page?
Day 1 During Reading Strategies: Comprehension, Predicting & Picture Clues
- Read the story slowly
Students can use the pictures to make meaning and form images in their minds. Â
- Stop every so often asking students to predict
Possible Questions: What might happen next? What picture clues help you find meaning in the text?
- Visualization
Close your eyes as I read this page, and see if you can picture in your   mindÂ
Possible Questions:   What is happening in the story? What can you see in this picture that helps you understand the story? Can you predict what will happen next in the story?
Day 1 After Reading Strategies: Story Comprehension; Making Connections; Picture Clues; Letter Activities; Phonemic Awareness & Fluency
- Comprehension
Possible Questions: What did you see in the picture on this page? Â Â What happened in the story?Â
- Connections
Possible Questions: This book makes me think of ________ (another book). Does this book remind you of anything that has happened to you or someone you know?Â
- Phonemic Awareness
Possible Questions: Which two words in this line of print start with the same sound? Can you find two words that sound alike on this page? What is the beginning sound in the word ________?
- Letter Activities
Possible Questions: (Point to a letter.) What is this letter? Can you find the same letter somewhere else in the room? What sound does this letter make?
- Fluency
Possible Questions: Â Â Let’s read this sentence together aloud.
Who can read the next sentence aloud?
Finally, there are many classroom Shared Reading tips for a teacher to use. This is a wonderful instructional approach to teach students the reading strategies they need to become a fluent reader and writer. If you are interested in knowing more about Shared & Guided Reading, click on the picture below to view and or purchase these Reading Coaching Tools! Happy Reading!
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