CH 11 Article on "Shared Reading"

I chose to read the article on Blackboard about shared reading. The first thing it talks about is the difference between shared reading and read alouds. The teacher merely guides while the children actually have a part in the reading. Shared reading lays the foundation for reading and writing skills, behavior, strategies and encourages active participation. I didn't and would've never know that rereading was so great. I always was one who cannot sit and watch the same movie twice, really it's hard to get me to even watch a movie. Now I need and want to try this with a book. To read something once draws questions, but to read something twice makes us inquisitive. It increases the child's independent involvement, such as relating the text to self, text to text, and relating the text language to life. I knew this happened but I did not notice all that comes out of reading a story, like all the ways that we relate to the books just by doing so, we don't actually realize all that it teaches us. Rereading, shared reading and reading aloud are critical in the reading process. These open doors for our young readers and are extremely important! It is our job to find the right books to give our children to help them grow, scaffold their reading techniques and teach them most importantly, to love it!

"Author Study"

"It's Probably Penny," by Loreen Leedy, is a book about Probability. I think it's a good idea to teach literature along with Math or Science in the afternoon. Like for example, I had the children do word webs for the 4 seasons and they had to write the words down and sound them out at the same time. The same for this book, it is a great book, it will keep your children entertained but at the same time it teaches them about math. I would suggest it for your 1st-5th graders.

"George and Martha, One Fine Day," by James Marshall, is one book of many. I found this book by asking different people what books they remembered reading when they were children. This book came about on the list. When reading it, I realized it was a small very thin book with 5 stories inside of it! This is a good book for shared reading, if you are letting the children read for fun, one child can read one story and the second child can read the next, etc.

"A Very Improbable Story," is another math book that I wanted to share. It's a hard read but it has the most beautiful pictures I have ever seen. This book is about a cat who gets stuck on the boy's head and won't get off until he figures out his probability questions. I would suggest this for 4th thru 6th grade.