Shared Book

Shared Reading involves a teacher and students reading together, interacting with a text. As children and the teacher share in repeated readings of a book, the teacher gradually gives the student more and more control over the reading. The teacher will use objects, sounds, signs, symbols, switches, Big Mac and core vocabulary boards to enable students to participate in the ‘telling’ of the story.

During shared reading, there are many different things that can be learned. Children who are emergent readers will learn about how print works, how illustrations and words can work together to tell a story. There is something for everyone in a good shared book lesson as it is one of the most multi- level formats.

For our older students shared reading might be an article or a novel that they read together. It could also be working their way through forms for opening a bank account or a phone contract for example.