SR 4-5 Embedded
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.
Embedded Opportunities for Shared Reading and Writing Across Contexts
IRA Lessons include Respond to the Text: Shared Writing opportunities that become Shared/Performance Reading opportunities.
Applicable books that offer Shared Reading opportunities are clearly labeled in the System/Collection Guide including poetry books, novels in verse, books with figurative language, or text features, and readers' theater scripts.
Reader's Theater scripts available in Online Resources
Value of Shared Reading for Intermediate/Middle-Level Readers
▸Develops a sense of community
▸Expand students' use of language structures
▸Provides a context for students to enjoy language and attend to aspects of the writer's craft
▸Builds confidence and knowledge
▸Helps students understand text features
▸Increases curiosity about words and builds reading vocabulary
▸Gives students an opportunity to notice the characteristics of specific genres
▸Offers an opportunity for students to engage in processing increasingly challenging texts together
Lead Literacy Learning Forward with Shared Reading
The benefits and goals of shared reading expand greatly as students grow in the development of a reading process. Shared reading is a community experience, one that continues to have enormous potential for leading literacy learning forward. With high teacher support, you can lift students' understanding of critical concepts that they will apply to learning in other instructional contexts as well as in their own independent reading.
Reading aloud a common text (or a short passage from a longer text) while students read along is an effective way to help intermediate and middle school students to notice a particular characteristic of a writer's craft or to expose the community of readers to new genres or forms.
Shared Reading for Intermediate/Middle-Level Readers
TEXTS
▸Scripts for readers' theater
▸Individual or enlarged copies of poems
▸Enlarged pages of regular-sized texts (pages from a novel or short story or interactive read-aloud book)
▸Plays
▸Speeches and historical documents
▸Charts, diagrams
▸Advertisements
▸Texts written through shared or interactive writing
GOALS
▸Build a sense of community
▸Strengthen word analysis skills
▸Expand vocabulary to include literary language
▸Enjoy the sounds of language
▸Use all dimensions of fluency to interpret a poem or script with the voice
▸Expand knowledge of nonfiction text features
▸Expand knowledge of underlying text structures
▸Notice aspects of the writer's craft
▸Identify arguments and evidence that supports them
▸Notice how the writer reveals purpose and the significance of a topic
▸Compare and critique texts
▸Provide models for writing
Shared and Performance Reading
Grade 4 Grade 5
Shared Reading 4.pdfShared Reading 5.pdf