Shared-Choral+Reading

=Practice = Shared Reading is an interactive reading experience where the teacher takes responsibility to model the enjoyment of reading, the process and strategies readers use to understand and think about text. Shared reading can be done with all literature including informational text. Strategies taught during shared reading can include
 * Print convention (page, cover, title, author)
 * Tracking print
 * Using letters and sounds in context
 * Teaching sight words
 * Print conventions (spacing, capitalization, punctuation)
 * Building a sense of story
 * Story elements (characters, setting, beginning, middle, end).
 * Predicting
 * Inferring
 * Expanding vocabulary
 * Sequence of events
 * Story elements
 * Concept development

=[|IS Resources] =

Professional Books
Reading Essentials: the specifics you need to teach reading well. Routman, Regie. Heinemann, 2003 Make Reservation 372.4 ROU A

Living Books
Arthur's Reading Race [CD ROM]. Living Books, 1996 Make Reservation 1006-A CD ROM The Berenstain Bears Get in a Fight [CD ROM]. Living Books, 1995 Make Reservation 1007-A CD ROM The Cat in the Hat [CD ROM]. Living Books, 1997 Make Reservation 1008-A CD ROM Dr. Seuss's ABC [CD ROM]. Living Books, 1995 Make Reservation 1014-A CD ROM Green Eggs and Ham [CD ROM]. Living Books, 1996 Make Reservation 1016-A CD ROM Little Monster at School [CD ROM]. Living Books, 1994 Make Reservation 1024-B CD ROM Ruff's Bone [CD ROM]. Living Books, 1994 Make Reservation 1039-C CD ROM Sheila Rae, the Brave : a sing-along adventure in reading [CD ROM]. Living Books, 1996 Make Reservation 1041-B CD ROM Stellaluna [CD ROM]. Living Books, 1996 Make Reservation 1790 CD ROM

=Web Resources = [|Shared Reading] Objectives, Essential Knowledge, and Skills