T Shaped Literacy- Shared reading.
Shared reading:
Can be used with small or large groups
Teacher support enables students to access and make meaning of challenging text, even if they are not able to read the text “comfortable on their own”.
Allows for a high level of interaction between students and teachers, and promotes conversation about texts.
Provides multiple instructional opportunities - specific strategies, vocabulary, understanding of text forms and structures, critical responses
Exposes students to a wider range of texts
Is not choral reading!
The teacher and students all read the text together. All students need to be able to see the text.
With a shared approach the teacher reads the text aloud, while students read the same with the teacher. In junior classrooms, students will often join in reading of key parts of the text, or the entire text, to develop fluency and expression (not to make meaning). In senior classrooms the text is read silently by students.
A wide range of texts can be used - fiction, non-fiction, electronic texts, posters, charts…
Texts should be chosen to meet specific learning goals, and with a T-Shaped Literacy approach, they should also relate to the big idea, or learning context, being explored.
Junior Y1-4
Introduce the text
Make links or connections to what they know, and other texts they have read.
First reading focus on enjoyment and understanding of the text.
Subsequent Readings
Focus on specific learning - vocabulary, spelling, phonics, structure of text, sentences, key themes and ideas…
Response to Reading/ Follow Up
Writing or Shared Writing
Retelling
The Arts - Drama, Visual Art…
