Shared Reading

Shared reading is an instructional approach in education, during which the teacher explicitly teaches the strategies and skills of proficient readers. The first purpose is to provide the children with an enjoyable experience. Introduce them to a variety of authors, illustrators and types of texts to entice them to become a reader. The second is equally as important purpose is to teach children the reading process and teach them how to be readers and writers themselves. When selecting texts for reading, teachers look for text that is appropriate for the reading level of the students, that is also cross-curricular and relevant in its nature. The text should be an appropriate length for study and be adequate to readers to understand what it means.
The teacher reads the text aloud, states a focus, and then re-reads the text. When asking questions specific to the focus of choice they may ask students to join them.