SHARED READING

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SHARED READING MAIN IDEA/DETAIL NOTES

• Anne Zesiger
• Deer Park ISD

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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)
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SHARED 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)
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READING ALOUD
Reading aloud serves to reassure, entertain,
inform, explain, arouse curiosity and inspire our
kids. (Trelease, 2001)
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READING ALOUD
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)
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OBJECTIVES
Improve listening comprehension listening
vocabulary Build vocabulary Create interest in
reading Improve students ability to visualize
the text
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PREDICTION
Prediction strategies activate thought about
the content before reading. (Vacca, 1999)
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FLUENCY
Students need to hear fluent reading in order
to become fluent readers. (Beers, 2003)
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ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGIES
Main idea-detail notes help students organize
main ideas and details from subject area reading
assignments. (Project CRISS, 1996)
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MAIN IDEA AND DETAIL NOTES
Purpose 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?

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MAIN IDEA/DETAIL NOTES
Synthesizing information integrates the words
and ideas in the text with the readers personal
thoughts and questions and gives the reader the
best shot at achieving new insight. (Harvey,
2000)
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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
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ESL
Copy teachers 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
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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
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Allen, Janet (2000). Yellow Brick Roads, Shared
and Guided Paths to Independent Reading 4-12.
Portland, Maine Stenhouse Publishers.
Beers, Kylene (2003). When Kids Cant Read, What
Teachers Can Do. Portsmouth, NH Heinemann.
Calkins, Lucy McCormick (2001). The Art of
Teaching Reading. New York Addison-Wesley
Educational Publishers, Inc.
Creating Independence through Student-owned
Strategies. Second Edition (1996). Dubuque,
Iowa Kendall-Hunt Publishing Company.
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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.
Vacca, Richard T. JoAnne (1999). Content Area
Reading, Literacy and Learning Across the
Curriculum. New York Longman.