SHARED INFORMATION
Shared Reading Books
The library books your child received can be used for shared reading. Shared Reading is exactly what it sounds like, it is a time for sharing a story and reading together (as well as a time of teaching reading concepts in a safe, fun environment)! Shared reading involves the parent who is a skilled reader and the child who is learning, reading a book together. At this stage we would expect the parent to be reading most of the words and the child to be copying the parent (see echo reading below). Please find some ideas below on how to get the most out of your shared reading sessions. It is important to return these books every Friday.
Shared Reading Strategies:
Before Reading: Picture Walk
Explain that before you read the story, you and the child will look at the pictures together to see if you can guess what the book is about. Then you will read the book together to see if your guesses were correct. Start by looking at the cover of the book. Ask the child what he/she sees on the cover. Ask what he/she thinks the story might be about. Proceed through the pages of the book, in order, looking carefully at the details in each picture. Ask the child who, what, where, when, why and how questions about the pictures such as “What is the boy doing?” “How do you think the dog feels?”. Once you have completed this process with all the pictures, read the story with the child. Stop when appropriate to discuss whether the child’s predictions were right.
During Reading
ECHO reading: You read the sentence and then you and the child read the sentence together. Finally the child reads the sentence alone.
Assisted reading: Read a part of the text and the child takes over at an agreed point-read every second sentence or page. If your child comes to an unknown word, you give them 4 seconds and then read the word for them.
Chorus reading: Parent and child read aloud together. Listen carefully so you know that your child is able to read with you most of the time.
If a child is reading without expression try asking them to read the same sentence again but with feeling. Reading and acting out lines is a great way to build fluency. This can be great fun if you really exaggerate and use different accents.
Letter sounds and sight word focus
Once your child is familiar with the story, you can also use this time to look more closely at the text. You can mask certain letters with Post-Its and ask your child to identify the missing letter. Another activity would be go on word hunts in the book for a chosen small high frequency words (I, the, to, etc) and count how many you can find. You can also play with the sound of the text, you can ask your child to listen carefully to the story and identify all the rhyming words they hear or to clap when they hear words that begin with a certain sound.
The library books your child received can be used for shared reading. Shared Reading is exactly what it sounds like, it is a time for sharing a story and reading together (as well as a time of teaching reading concepts in a safe, fun environment)! Shared reading involves the parent who is a skilled reader and the child who is learning, reading a book together. At this stage we would expect the parent to be reading most of the words and the child to be copying the parent (see echo reading below). Please find some ideas below on how to get the most out of your shared reading sessions. It is important to return these books every Friday.
Shared Reading Strategies:
Before Reading: Picture Walk
Explain that before you read the story, you and the child will look at the pictures together to see if you can guess what the book is about. Then you will read the book together to see if your guesses were correct. Start by looking at the cover of the book. Ask the child what he/she sees on the cover. Ask what he/she thinks the story might be about. Proceed through the pages of the book, in order, looking carefully at the details in each picture. Ask the child who, what, where, when, why and how questions about the pictures such as “What is the boy doing?” “How do you think the dog feels?”. Once you have completed this process with all the pictures, read the story with the child. Stop when appropriate to discuss whether the child’s predictions were right.
During Reading
ECHO reading: You read the sentence and then you and the child read the sentence together. Finally the child reads the sentence alone.
Assisted reading: Read a part of the text and the child takes over at an agreed point-read every second sentence or page. If your child comes to an unknown word, you give them 4 seconds and then read the word for them.
Chorus reading: Parent and child read aloud together. Listen carefully so you know that your child is able to read with you most of the time.
If a child is reading without expression try asking them to read the same sentence again but with feeling. Reading and acting out lines is a great way to build fluency. This can be great fun if you really exaggerate and use different accents.
Letter sounds and sight word focus
Once your child is familiar with the story, you can also use this time to look more closely at the text. You can mask certain letters with Post-Its and ask your child to identify the missing letter. Another activity would be go on word hunts in the book for a chosen small high frequency words (I, the, to, etc) and count how many you can find. You can also play with the sound of the text, you can ask your child to listen carefully to the story and identify all the rhyming words they hear or to clap when they hear words that begin with a certain sound.
