What is Shared Reading?
Shared reading is an evidence-based instructional approach. The focus during shared reading is on the interaction and meaning making that occurs when a child and adult look at or read a book together. Shared reading would benefit any emergent reader, regardless of their age, and can be done individually or in small groups.Teachers read with students not to students. The goal is for the student to lead the interactions during shared reading.
Literacy Instruction for Students with Significant Disabilities, Karen Erickson & David Koppenhaver
Suggested strategies to aid shared reading
Teacher and learners having a dialogue around the shared text
Get the learner’s ATTENTION, then INVITE participation and then they RESPOND (or we model a response for a receptive communicator)
Eight strategies / activities to aid interactive reading
Lead with a COMMENT, ASK a question, RESPOND by adding more
COMPLETION (leave a blank at the end of a sentence for learners to fill)
RECALL (questions about what just happened)
OPEN -ENDED (questions that do not have a specific answer
WH questions (typically focus on pictures e.g what does that man have?)
DISTANCE (questions that build a bridge between the book and personal experience)
ELI: Alphabetic & Phonological Awareness