Shared reading is an instructional approach in which the teacher explicitly models the strategies and skills of proficient readers.
With this instructional technique, students have an opportunity to gradually assume more responsibility for the reading as their skill level and confidence increase.
A benefit of this resource is that it replicates the look and appearance of a real big book on an interactive whiteboard making it clearly visible to children.
By increasing the amount of shared-reading in the home, parents are able to help children with their development of a larger knowledge base for understanding the world.
[2] The main purpose of shared reading is to provide children with an enjoyable experience, introduce them to a variety of authors, illustrators and types of texts to entice them to become a reader.
[3] By increasing the amount of shared reading in the home, parents are able to help children with their development of a larger knowledge base for understanding the world.