Today a group of teachers attended an Early Literacy Workshop run by the reading recovery centre. Today's session was based around shared book and the value of shared book.
A common thread of thought that came from this workshop was that Shared book is a social experience and one that engages people. Books offer a wealth of language through connections, language, involvement, engagement layout questioning and enables exposure to work that is more challenging through scaffolding that teacher use.
As we have been currently working on engaging boys in writing as a schoolwide focus and on empowerment through our current readings, my thoughts coming away from this was that in addition to the above common threads, shared books arouse interest and the desire to find out more. When we couple this with student agency and the freedom of choice we will move beyond engagement and move towards empowerment in learning.
READ, WRITE, INNOVATE!
During the discussions, we were introduced to an Educational expert Don Holdaway. According to Don Holdaway the Shared Book Experience should include...
- Observation of the demonstration
- Guided participation including, guided thinking and questioning
- Unsupervised role play and practice-based around the story and the ideas of the story.
- Performance - the sharing and celebrating of accomplishments.
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