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Shared Reading
Interactive Read Aloud

Teachers have used shared reading in classrooms since 1979.

You can use the same methods with your children to give them a head start on reading skills.

Children love read aloud books and reading together!

Interactive read aloud activities help children to develop reading skills together, but each at his own pace.

When books are read aloud together, no one is self conscious and no child fails. Best of all, children love this activity and have fun!

Shared reading, interactive read-aloud.

Photo courtesy of Michael Ignatieff

What is Shared Reading?

It is an interactive reading experience where the teacher (or parent) interacts with the children and the children interact with each other. It's not a free-for-all experience, as the teacher or parent gently guides the activity so that the children learn.

The activity is centered around a read-aloud book. For younger children, the book is usually an oversized book (big book) with large print and pictures.

Benefits of Guided Read Aloud Activities

Why should you, or your child's teacher read aloud with the class (or your kids)? Studies over the years have proven the benefits of reading aloud to young children—even starting at birth.

Taking this a step further, this system of interactive reading aloud, develops reading readiness and reading skills, not just when children are little, but also as a child grows older.

Here are some of the benefits:

  • Reading to children allows them to enjoy books beyond their reading levels.

  • Hearing words increases vocabulary words and helps children comprehend what they read.

  • Even before they can read, children learn pre-reading skills and act like they are reading.

  • Children learn to anticipate what will happen in the story, and get excited waiting for it to happen...

  • Children hear sounds and will start to have understanding about phonics and words. They start to develop phonemic awareness and associate sounds with parts of words.

  • They learn to recognize words.

Interactive reading is an adult-guided interactive way to read books and stories. The teacher asks questions, tells the children to look for certain things in the story, and shows the children the text and the pictures. Everyone reads certain parts of the story together. Everyone succeeds.

Through the interactions with each other and the story, children learn while they are having fun.

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