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June 19, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Are You Reading Enough? Tips for Shared Reading

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For pre-readers in preschool and kindergarten, or students in special education who have not developed literacy skills, shared reading time is valuable time for learning about vocabulary and story structure.

  • Shared reading is usually done with beginning readers, as a way to instill a love of reading, develop language and literacy skills, and provide access to a wide variety of literature.
    • Studies recommend children should be read to at least 15 minutes per day.  Many students with special needs do not get even this minimum amount.  Start with brief reading then, as attention span grows, extend the time.
  • When teachers think out loud during shared reading, they model for students how to deal with unfamiliar vocabulary and concepts, text features and structures.  Teachers need to model strategies in order for students to learn to use them.
    • Prediction is especially important. Stop throughout the story to predict what might happen next. Prediction questions increase comprehension. 
  • For students in special education who are just developing – or have not developed any – literacy skills, it is an essential classroom tool for increasing background knowledge, providing access to texts, and increasing important language skills.
Shared reading is less about questioning and asking than it is about developing a love of books and reading. But there are also opportunities to get kids thinking about the stories and their elements.
Read-aloud opportunities shared with students do create opportunities for eliciting and scaffolding language.  By talking about the stories you read, you build skills for understanding vocabulary, using descriptive concepts, making comparisons and contrasts, sequencing, and recognizing story elements.
This is  a brief handout that provides some basic tips for shared reading strategies.
Send it home for the Summer so that parents can learn, too!
(If you want more complex information about shared reading, complete with templates to use for a variety of activities with any book you use, I have a product for sale here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Using-Story-Books-in-Speech-and-Special-Ed-Shared-and-Guided-Reading-Strategies-1711854 )
Keep on talking – and reading!

 

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About susanbslp

I have been a SLP for more than 40 years, working in public and nonpublic schools, nonprofit agencies, group homes and day programs, developmental centers. For the past 20 years I have run my own private practice, providing independent AAC evaluations, consultation, and staff training. I have presented full and part-day seminars and workshops, spoken at national and international conferences, and published research in peer-reviewed professional journals. I currently create AAC implementation materials on TPT.

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