Shared Reading

Shared reading encourages early reading enjoyment while building pre-reading skills. Shared reading in my classroom involves simple songs and rhymes related to our unit of study presented in an interactive and engaging manner. As an introduction, I hang the shared reading poster on the easel in the front of our classroom. This piques their interest. After engaging in a picture walk to make predictions and connections between the illustrations and the text, we recite the rhyme. Over subsequent days, we act as “picture detectives” acting out what we see, identify rhyming words, match words and pictures with velcro using beginning letter sounds and name and circle letters on the poster. The shared reading poster then gets hung in the library where students interact with it.  

Shared Reading Standards:

Domain 4: Cognition, Language, and Literacy
Part B: English Language Arts and Literacy
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

• With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing or idea in the text an illustration depicts.)
   

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills: Print Concepts

• Demonstrate an understanding of the organization and basic features of print

  • Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.

Phonological Awareness 

• Demonstrate an emerging understanding of spoken words, syllables and sounds (phonemes).

  • Engage in language play (e.g., alliterative language, rhyming, sound patterns).

  • Recognize and match word that rhyme

  • Demonstrate awareness of relationship between sounds and letters

  • With support and prompting, isolate and pronounce the initial sounds in words