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 nonfiction text read to students.
Nonfiction Text: Day 1
Day 1 Before Reading Strategies: Learning about the topic
- Nonfiction about real people and places, and focuses on a topic
- Looking at the cover of the book, what can you already tell me about _______?
- Do you like ______? Why or why not?
- Think of some things you might want to learn about ________.
Day 1 During Reading Strategies: Teaching specific information about topic
- Develop a Select-a-Fact sheet with the students. As you read the text together, you write down one- or two-word facts (selected information pieces of text). At the end of the reading, ask a student to create either one or two sentences that contain the selected facts and write the sentence(s) in the Fact column.
- Example: Fish, Heavy, Cartilage
- Fact: A shark is a heavy fish whose skeleton is made of cartilage.
Day 1 After Reading Strategies: What was learned about topic
- How did this text help you learn more about ______?
- What did you learn that was new about _______?
- Can you list three new facts about _______?
- What surprised you most about the information on _______?
Finally, there are many classroom Shared Reading tips for a teacher to use for nonfiction text. 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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