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Child-Directed Shared Reading


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With this type of shared reading experience, your child is directing instead of you. Depending on the level of the text, your child's reading level, and the difficulty of the content, there are different ways your child can lead a discussion of the book. 


First your child could retell the story to you as best as he or she can using pictures and words as clues to retell it. He or she can also read the story back to you using the words alone, or a combination of anything in between.


The goal is for your child to begin being an active participant and practice forming confidence when telling stories. 


Below is a list of a series of ways to engage in child-directed reading, from most simple to most complex, so you can pick an approach that is appropriate for your child's age and stage.  


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 1. Child tells story to parent, relying on his                                        own imagination — as well as picture clues and memory            of the story, to tell the story as he wants to, perhaps with few      similarities to what is written.



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2.  Child tells story to parent, relying on text                    clues, along with picture clues and memory of            the story, in order to approximate the story as            it is written.


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3. Child reads story to parent with some degree of         fluency, largely telling the story as it is                       written, but occasionally substituting some words       for others.


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4.  Child fluently reads story to parent.