Shared Reading is a playful literacy experience in which children are engaged in reading poetry, rhymes, and children’s literature. The children gain knowledge about letter sounds, self correction of words, directional conventions on how to turn pages, that print is read from left to right, as well as from top to bottom, letter sound associations, punctuation, predicting text, and intonation patterns while participating in this fun activity. This experience is pleasurable to children and allows them to be successful in reading, which provides them with the desire to experiment with reading and writing at other times.

Shared Reading Skills Taught Throughout the Year

August – September

-Letter Identification  

-Vocabulary Awareness (Continued throughout the year)

-Phonemic Awareness (rhyming, listening)

-Comprehension  

-Concepts of Print (Continued throughout the year)

•         Title

•        Author

•         Illustrator

•        Title page

•         Dedication page

•        Hold book right side up

•         Turns pages from left to right

•         Read from left to right

•        One to one correspondence  

•     Punctuation

-Initial Sounds

 

October – November

-Listening Awareness

-Rhyming Awareness (Substitute rhyming words in a poem – List rhyming words)

-Comprehension

-Alliteration – producing groups of words that begin with the same initial sound  

-Beginning, Ending, and Final Sounds

-Sight Words

-Short Vowels  

-Word Families

-Word awareness (Play “Word Clap” – Clap out the syllables in a word)

-Syllable Awareness (Play “What’s the Word” – say a word in parts and allow the children to repeat the entire word – example: “di…no…saur” and child would say dinosaur)  

-Phonemic Awareness (rhyming, listening, segmenting, blending)

-Phonics

 

 

December

-Beginning, Ending, and Final Sounds 

-Word Families

-Phonemic Awareness (rhyming, listening, segmenting, blending)

-Phonics

-Sentence Segmentation – segmenting sentences into spoken words

-Syllables – blending syllables to say words or segmenting spoken words into syllables

-Short vowels

 

January

-Long Vowels

-Onsets and rime – blending or segmenting the initial consonant or consonant cluster (onset) and the vowel and consonant sounds spoken after it (rime)

-Phonemes – blending phonemes into words, segmenting words into individual phonemes, and manipulating phonemes in spoken words

-Phoneme Segmentation

-Word Family Awareness

-Comprehension

 

February

-Word Family Awareness

-Long Vowels

-Blends      

-Diagraphs 

-Comprehension

 

March - May

-Word Family Awareness

-Blends  

-Diagraphs

-Comprehension

-Review