Shared Reading Course Outline

  • Part 1: Course Overview
    • Course introduction
    • Course structure
    • About your presenter
  • Part 2: Introduction to Shared Reading
    • What is shared reading?
    • How is the lesson structured
    • What are the aims and objectives
    • Text selection
    • Content or subject matter
    • Teaching and learning goals
  • Part 3: Identifying Teaching/Learning Goals
    • Linking teaching goals to student needs
    • Selecting texts
    • Lesson tips and suggestions
    • Analysing word solving errors
    • Analysing students’ understandings
    • Types of teaching/learning goals
    • Barriers to reading comprehension
    • Action plan
  • Part 4: Lesson Components
    • Structure of a shared reading lesson
    • Introducing the lesson
    • Body of the lesson
    • Concluding the lesson
    • Action plan
  • Part 5: Introducing the Lesson
    • Lesson planning decisions
    • Set goal
    • Activate prior knowledge
    • Introduce text
    • State purpose
    • Lesson duration and topic
    • Action plan
  • Part 6: Body of the Lesson
    • Sequence
    • Links to goal
    • Metalanguage
    • Questioning
    • Applying
    • Synthesising
    • Action plan
  • Part 7: Concluding the Lesson
    • Revisit goal and purpose
    • Prompt for reflection
    • Options for concluding the lesson and reflecting
    • Action plan
  • Part 8: Reflection, FAQ and Summing Up
    • The vital role personal reflection has in improving your teaching and some of the questions you should be asking yourself.
    • Addressing the questions around implementing shared reading that are frequently asked.
    • Summarising the main ideas we've covered in this course to reinforce the key learnings of Shared Reading Online.
    • A complete lesson from start to finish will show you how the various components of Shared Reading look in the context of a real classroom.
    • Action plan

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