Shared Reading Activity. Why is it at the heart of the text – based language intervention paradigm?
Shared reading activity, or activities are central to the success of text-based intervention. Shared reading is a set of language intervention tools that use a variety of stimulation techniques to strengthen a student’s ability to read for meaning. Shared reading activity is based on Communicative Reading Strategies, (Norris, 1991) which consists of a number of scaffolding strategies designed to improve a reader’s oral and written language skills. One of the most valuable aspects of shared reading is that it focuses on reading being a meaning-making process. (DeKemel, 2003) My experience has been that many school-age students have difficulty with reading because they don’t read for meaning. Some language impaired students can give the impression they are competent readers, because they have adequate decoding skills, and their reading sounds fluent. But decoding is not reading. When you dig a little deeper it becomes clear that the student has little understanding of the meaning of the
