Shared Readings: Modeling Comprehension, Vocabulary, Text Structures, and Text Features for Older Readers
Reading this article was very interesting and insightful because I have always personally believed that a person needs to know the “meaning” of a word in order to understand its context in the sentence. With this said, I did not know exactly how to go about approaching this problem besides saying to my student, “go look it up in the dictionary.” Modeling for our students, ways to figure out what a word means seems to be a “no brainer”, but I know the teacher needs to be prepared in order for this type of modeling to go smoothly. This modeling should be a standard activity in every classroom, even for students who are just learning to read. Also, this modeling can benefit all students because the teacher is approaching the shared reading by dissecting words or meanings of words in different ways.
