Modelled and Shared Reading

Teachers will: read to, show, demonstrate, explain, instruct, and interpret student responses

Students will: watch, engage, listen, follow, share, question, and participate

Shared reading means that both the teacher and the students will participate and interact in reading a story and making meaning of the text together

Shared reading works as the teacher begins reading the text, and the students join in as they feel comfortable. The structure will be set up by the teacher and could include both silent or oral reading by the students. The goal is for the students to gradually assume responsibility of reading the text.

Critical literacy skills
Text features
Phrasing, fluency, and intonation
Word-solving strategies
Reading and writing connections
Questioning the text
Personal Responses

Introduce the students to the cover and discuss the author, title, and illustration. Have students predict what the text might be about, and relate the topic the text to what students already know. Read through the text and engage students in a discussion about the text. Focus on events, characters and illustrations. Re-reading the text can also be very beneficial for all students.

Semantic knowledge
Grammatical knowledge
Graphological/phonological knowledge
Contextual knowledge
The roles of the reader
Meaning
Sound, letter and word knowledge