Shared Reading Experience
There are different ways to enjoy a shared reading experience with your child. The key component to having a genuine shared reading
experience is through engaging and including your child as much as possible to help create a readers identity.
Ask your child questions throughout the story, such as asking how characters feel, making predictions, and asking what your child learned.
These valuable opportunities can help instill confidence.
experience is through engaging and including your child as much as possible to help create a readers identity.
Ask your child questions throughout the story, such as asking how characters feel, making predictions, and asking what your child learned.
These valuable opportunities can help instill confidence.
In this section you will find a variety of ways to engage in shared reading experiences. On the pages that follow, we talk about different reading styles, including parent-directed, child-directed, and joint reading.
Each of these styles can be used with beginning readers and more sophisticated readers, and you'll see how the strategy can be used in more complex ways as your children gain proficiency.
In addition, we'd like to encourage you to build more and more joint book reading (as opposed to just parent- or child-directed reading) into your routine because this shared time builds so many language and literacy skills!