Using Shared Reading for Implicit and Explicit Instruction
Brenda Parkes · 2023
One of the major goals of shared reading is to help children develop a range of effective strategies for reading and understanding text. A great deal of teaching and learning happens every time active learners meet with a responsive teacher to read and reread shared books and to engage in discussion and analysis of texts. With ongoing assessment and the goals of the classroom literacy program in mind, teachers implicitly and explicitly model reading and writing behaviors, skills, and strategies. Shared reading is an ideal way to demonstrate how the three language-based sources of information—semantics, syntax, and graphophonics—work and engage children in their use. Semantic knowledge allows readers to build networks they can use to figure out new information in texts and mentally organize it into long-term memory. Syntactic, or structural, information comes from knowing the grammar or the ongoing flow of language.