Shared reading

Shared reading is an instructional approach in which the teacher explicitly models the strategies and skills of proficient readers. Shared reading is an instructional approach in which the teacher explicitly models the strategies and skills of proficient readers. In Brenda Parkes' text, Read It Again!, a guide for teachers to do shared reading in the classroom, the first chapter asks, What is Shared Reading? She then answers the question by writing, ' Shared reading is a collaborative learning activity, based on research by Don Holdaway (1979), that emulates and builds from the child's experience with bedtime stories.'