SHARED READING & MAIN IDEA/DETAIL

NOTES

Anne ZesigerDeer Park ISD

SHARED READING

“Shared reading should be a time when the teacher is in control of the reading experience. As a teacher who is reading, I can stop to clarify or bring straggling or sleeping readers back to the text. I can occasionally ask questions that move students forward if they seem lost. I can stop to quickly make sure students have gained meaning from text.” (Allen, 2000)

SHARED READINGSHARED READING

“During shared reading, the decoding is done by the teacher (or tape), so student readers can focus their cognitive energies on the tasks of comprehension: visualizing, questioning, inferring, making word associations, predicting, connecting, and analyzing. As these comprehension tasks become automatic, they can be transferred to students' independent reading or a shared reading of more complex texts.” (Allen, 2000)

READING ALOUD

“Reading aloud serves to reassure, entertain, inform, explain, arouse curiosity and inspire our kids.” (Trelease, 2001)

“Talk is always a motor behind intellectual development, but I think it is uniquely important in the teaching of reading. The conversations readers have in the air become the conversations they have in their minds. We teach reading by teaching talking-about-reading and writing-about-reading.” (Calkins, 2001)

READING ALOUD

OBJECTIVEOBJECTIVESS

Improve listening comprehension & listening vocabulary

Build vocabulary

Create interest in reading

Improve students’ ability to visualize the text

PREDICTION

“Prediction strategies activate thought about the content before reading.” – (Vacca, 1999)

FLUENCY

“Students need to hear fluent reading in order to become fluent readers.” (Beers, 2003)

ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGIES

“ Main idea-detail notes help students organize main ideas and details from subject area reading assignments.” (Project

CRISS, 1996)

MAIN IDEA AND DETAIL NOTESPurpose Help students organize reading

assignments, lectures, videos, etc

Format Two columns

Left Column contains main ideas

Right Column contains details which support and elaborate the main points

Study Aid Cover up the right column and self- test using the following questions:

What is the information?

How much detail is needed?

What prior knowledge can be connected?

MAIN IDEA/DETAIL NOTES

“Synthesizing information integrates the words and ideas in the text with the reader’s personal thoughts and questions and gives the reader the best shot at achieving new insight.” (Harvey, 2000)

Learning Challenged

Give a copy of notes to student

Let student set next to and copy from teacher

Pair with another student who can help with notes

ESL

Copy teacher’s notes

Let them sit by teacher for further explanation

Pair with another ESL student and allow them to help each other in their native language

Gifted and Talented

Assigning questions that require higher level thinking

Encourage students to expand on ideas and suggestions

Let help and be peer tutors for students who may need help

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Calkins, Lucy McCormick (2001). The Art of Teaching Reading. New York: Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers, Inc.

Allen, Janet (2000). Yellow Brick Roads, Shared and Guided Paths to Independent Reading 4-12. Portland, Maine: Stenhouse Publishers.

Beers, Kylene (2003). When Kids Can’t Read, What Teachers Can Do. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Creating Independence through Student-owned Strategies. Second Edition (1996). Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall-Hunt Publishing Company.

Vacca, Richard T. & JoAnne (1999). Content Area Reading, Literacy and Learning Across the Curriculum. New York: Longman.

Harvey, Stephanie and Anne Goudvis (2000). Strategies That Work, Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding. York, Maine: Stenhouse Publishers. Trelease, Jim (2001). The Read Aloud Handbook. New York: Penguin Books.