Shared Reading

Shared reading is an  instructional approach in which the teacher explicitly models the strategies and skills of proficient readers. Shared readings provide children with an enjoyable experience, introduce them to a variety of authors, illustrators and types of texts to entice them to become a reader. For my shared reading,

I was explaining the sequence of events handout.

we read a biography about Paul Revere to remind the ones who have forgotten or are not sure. I read the biography aloud to the group. After one reading, I asked the students what stands out to them and what they recalled about the story. I then asked students to identify any facts about Revere heard in the biography that they did not previously know. Then I passed out copies of the text.   Further class discussion focused on literary elements and not historical detail because that was covered later. After the story had been read aloud I gave students the opportunity to review the story on their own. I asked the students to circle memorable place names such as Lexington, etc. and then underline the prefixes in the story. Once students had done this and we had went over it, I asked the students to pick at least 5 words in the biography that they can find a synonym for and write the synonym above the word. I allowed students to read one of the paragraphs that they changed to make sure they sentence makes sense and that the student grasped the concept. Students then did a sequence of events of the biography. I asked students to summarize some of the important things that happened in the Paul Revere biography and name some of the memorable place names and synonyms of the words they changed.



Student cicling memorable place names
and finding synonyms.