Expand Students Literacy Processing Systems

The role of shared and performance reading for intermediate/middle-level readers.

In the early years, shared reading plays a vital role in helping students understand how to find and use information from print. As readers become more proficient, shared and performance reading continue to offer opportunities for more advanced reading work than students can do independently. A form of shared reading can be used at every grade level and is especially important for English language learners, who can benefit greatly from group support.

For students in grades four and above, use the level of support that shared reading affords with a greater variety of texts to develop readers' competencies in word analysis, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.

Shared reading and writing opportunities are woven throughout the lessons to create coherence and enable students to make connections across instructional contexts.