Using Shared Reading with Year 1 Students. This research project has been presented in the British Council ELTDP Symposium in Kuching Sarawak 2013.

1. Classroom Research Project
ELTDP
Teacher: Rosidah Abu Bakar
School: SK Karamunting Sandakan
Mentor: Breena Cheers

2. USING SHARED READING WITH YEAR ONE
STUDENTS.
Story : The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
By; Eric Carle
Age group: 7 years old
Duration of the lesson: 3 X 60 minutes
Methodology: Story based approach

3. WHAT IS SHARED READING ?
Shared reading is an interactive reading
experience that occurs when students
join in or share the reading of a book/ big
book while guided and supported by a
teacher or experienced reader.

4. It is an enjoyable cooperate reading
activity where children participate in
reading, learn critical concepts of how
print works, get the feel of learning and
begin to perceive themselves as readers.
(Fountess & Pinnell,1996)

5. STORY BOOKS IN THE CLASSROOM

6. Why use story books..?
• Students can have the experience and
opportunity to explore a high level text.
• Students can experience a creative and artistic
learning environment.
• Pictures/ illustration in the book can help the
students take meaning from the text.
• Students can have the opportunity to talk
about the story and make prediction.

7. * The teacher can give students the
opportunity to practice in Wh Question
orally.
* It creates a fun and enjoyable lesson to
achieved the student’s needs in the lesson.

8. How to Conduct Shared Reading?
a) Introduce the story
- discuss the title, cover, author, illustration.
- Ask students to make predictions regarding
what they story might be about.
b) Read the story aloud.
- Use appropriate tone, inflection.
- Pause and ask students to make prediction.
- Ask brief questions to check students’
comprehension level.

9. How to conduct Shared Reading?
c) Conclude the reading.
- Ask question about the story and relate it to
the students’ similar experiences
d) Conduct follow up activities related to the
story.

10. Shared Reading Process
* A shared reading session may be conducted in
many ways depending on the needs of the
students and the teaching objectives
determined by the teacher.
* It will be divided into three reading session;
- Before, During and After reading ‘
How to use it;
• individual
• Small groups
• Whole class setting

11. What are the opportunities in
Shared Reading..?
* Students able to track print from left to right.
( Left right orientation )
• Students able to make prediction.
• Students able to enjoy and participate in
reading with a high level text supported by a
teacher or experienced reader.
• Students able to sequence an event of a story.

12. * Students able to learn Story Elements
( Characters, Setting, beginning, middle,
end )
* Students able to communicate and
express idea confidently.
* Students can have the opportunity to
communicate with the teacher in non
formal situation.
* Students have the opportunity to use
and practice the target language.

13. HOW THE LESSONBEGINS.

14. What I Plan to do..
• There are 3 lessons using “The Very Hungry
Caterpillar” story book by Eric Carle.
• The Objectives from the 3 lessons are;
1) Students enjoy listening to a story in Shared Reading.
2) Students learned Sight Words.
3) Students learned Days of the Week.
4) Students learned about food that the caterpillar ate
in the story.
5) Students able to sequence an event of a story.
6) Students able to answer Wh-Questions orally.

15. What are the activities?
Before reading;
- Puzzle
- Students talk about the character
- Talk about the author. Who is the
author?
- Students talk about the cover,
pictures,colours..etc
- Story review.

16. Puzzle

17. Solving the puzzle.

18. Pre Reading

19. Shared Reading
During Reading:
- Read the story aloud. Invite students to listen/
participate.
- Picture walk.
- Ask brief Questions.
- Make pauses and invite students to make
prediction.
- Introduce sight words.
- Invites students to Chime in phrases.

20. During Reading

21. During Reading

22. During Reading

23. Shared Reading
After Reading;
- Teacher asks questions to check
comprehension level.
- Students do vocabulary match on the board.
- Students make a Picture Story.
- Writing.
- Sequencing a story event.

24. Vocabulary match

25. Vocabulary match

26. Vocabulary match

27. Materials: Picture Story

28. Making Picture Story

29. Sequencing story event

30. Sequencing a story event

31. Summing up the lesson.

32. Question & Answer

33. The Materials

34. The Materials

35. The Materials

36. Preparing the Big Book

37. THE BIG BOOK

38. What I have learned about Shared
Reading?
• I found new ways of introducing a topic in a
lesson.
• Sharing stories using Big Book.
• Read with correct intonation and expression
to attract student’s attention.
• Interaction with students to check their
comprehension level.
• To relate stories to student’s personal
experience.

39. What my students’ have learned
about Shared Reading?
• Sight words/ high frequency words.
• Days of the week
• Food
- Western fruits and food
• The ability to predict
• Cause and effect; the caterpillar ate to much
and had a stomachache.
• Relate stories to their personal experiences.

40. Thanks for listening..
ENJOY YOUR DAY