Target / focus
To be able to employ a variety of effective teaching strategies to improve reading skills for example, sharing reading.
Aim 2
Implementing, Managing Learning
Rationale
Shared reading is one of the most important kinds of learning especially, between teacher and students. According to Cappellini, M. (2005), “the teacher reads a big book or an enlarged text with the children, and the children join in and read with the teacher”. However, Carrell, P. L., Devine, J., & Eskey, D. E. (1988) comments that “Shared reading based on group loud reading, it can be seen in schools when a teacher reads to a group of children rather than to a single child”(p. 14). Besides that, there are many benefits of shared reading, for example,
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Engage students and motivate them to read. Regarding Lee (1996), “ I use shared reading to engage kids in reading”.
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Help teacher to encourage students to love of reading.
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To teach them basic of language
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Help teacher to observe and assess students in which language levels they are.
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Build strong community between teacher and students.
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Help teachers to use new vocabulary.
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Encourages students in the prediction process.
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Shared reading kind of interactive process so it joined bottom- up and top- down together, and that mean the students will connect their prior knowledge and new information.
Strategies
There are several strategies that I can use it to improve student’s reading skills in the class and to help them to read fluently especially in shared reading
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I will choose a story which will help me to engage students and attract their attention to listen.
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I will try to let all of them participate with us by asking them some questions for example, who can read the title, author name, pictures, colors and their expectations about the story.
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I will give students idea about story and I will ask them some questions to make their predictions.
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I will ask students to retell the story by their own way.
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I will ask them to summarize the important points or important characters in the story to make sure they was read.
Documented evidence
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Observation
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Reflection
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Students’ performance during reading
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Bloom's Taxonomy questioning