Shared Reading

The article was very insightful. I think it is very important to conduct shared readings in our classrooms. I learned that it it gives young children an enjoyable experience so that they grow to love stories and become independent readers and writers. Reading aloud is bringing literature alive to the children. I love reading to children and i read the stories dramatically to the whole group. The children become so fascinated and more engaged to the story as i get into it. Any child can pick up a book and read but they can never compare the experience with the shared reading with the whole class. It becomes memorable for them because of all the connection they had with the book and the rest of the class. As they reread the stories, they pick up new information that they probably have missed in the first time. It turns out that reading aloud needs to happen for every student at all grade levels. It is very effective in developing and supporting many aspects of literacy like: interest in reading, language development, building vocabulary, developing listening comprehension, understanding different kinds of sentence structures, and so much more.