Importance of Shared Reading

First Graders and Reading

Letter Sound Relationships– learning how to decode new words by applying the letter-sound relationship for single

letters, pairs of letters, such as sh or er, and short and long vowel patterns, such as the silent e

Reading for Meaning– First graders learn to derive meaning from what is read to her and what she reads. Students

can recognize the sequence of events in a story, and their cause and effect, as well as make predictions.

Read Aloud– Listening to books read aloud gives first-graders models of fluent reading and helps them

develop a positive attitude toward books. It also helps them understand vocabulary and language patterns in texts

Shared Reading

• What is shared reading?– Shared reading is an interactive reading experience.

Students join in the reading of a big book, poem, song, or article, with enlarged text that the whole class can see, guided by the teacher. During the reading, children are actively involved. The teacher may pause in the reading to introduce print conventions, teach vocabulary, introduce a reading skill, encourage the students to predict what comes next, and more. The book, poem, song, or article is read multiple times over several days.

Reading Strategies Taught During Shared Reading

• Reading for fun• Recognizing rhyme• One to one matching• Identify vocabulary• Expression• Main Idea• Concepts of Print

• Fluency• Author’s style• High Frequency

Words• Punctuation• Beginning Sounds• Ending Sounds

What does shared reading look like in the classroom?

Shared Reading in the Classroom

Big Books

Mrs. Wishy-Washy Mrs. Wishy-Washy’s Farm

Poems

Fall is here

Fall is piles of crunch leaves

orange, gold, and red.

Fall is a sweater with long sleeves,

and blankets on the bed.

Fall is football,

Fall is pumpkins,

Fall’s where summer ends.

Poem

Popcorn

Pop pop popcorn,

Popping in the pot.

Pop pop popcorn,

Eat it while it’s hot!

Pop pop popcorn,

Butter on the top.

When I eat popcorn

I can’t stop!

Classroom Charts

Songs

My country, 'tis of Thee

My country, 'tis of Thee,

Sweet Land of LibertyOf thee I sing;

Land where my fathers died,

Land of the pilgrims' pride,

From every mountain side

Let Freedom ring.

Shared Reading & Math

Singing to the tune of Happy Birthday

3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30, 33, 36

Happy Reading!

The End