Sammi Huber Edok #1 Spring 2014

Gill, S. R. (2006). Teaching rimes with shared reading. The Reading Teacher, 60(2), 191-193. CENTRAL THEME: The theme of this article is the importance of teaching rhymes to young children. It states that by doing shared reading in your classroom you are providing students with enjoyment and successful reading experiences. It breaks down shared reading into five different steps and provides examples of how to teach phonics through poetry through shared reading. MAIN IDEAS: 1. Shared reading allows students to interact with the class and provides repeated readings of predictable texts and poems. It helps build students sight word vocabularies, sentence fluency, and phonics knowledge. Shared reading is also enjoyable. 2. Rimes teach spelling patterns. While teaching onsets and rimes the teacher has a better approach to phonics than teaching individual letter sounds. 3. The five steps for shared reading. Reading the poem, introducing a skill, working with words, writing, and rereading. Within the steps are examples of how to demonstrate each step. REFLECTION: I found this article to very accurate. I have a four year old daughter and she loves reading very much. I read a story to her every night. The older she gets, the more questions she has about the story. The stories that contain rhymes and are repeated, she tends to favor. We read them so much that she has easily memorized some of the books and will read them to me. I know she is not reading the words, but I can see how working with rhyming books like this will allow her to easily understanding how the teacher is trying to teach phonics. To be honest, I have always wanted to teach older grades, possible middle school. However, after reading this article and seeing the truth behind it unfold in what my daughter is doing, I would feel privileged to be able to teach younger children phonics through shared reading and rhyming books/poems. The part of this article that stood out the most to me was when she mentioned in step one that when her class is familiar with a book, she will allow volunteers to read it alone. I absolutely loved that usually her struggling readers would be the ones to volunteer, because they can read the book perfectly by now. That is a powerful statement because it boost the students confidence and the whole class is participating in a fun and powerful lesson. I love how shared reading makes reading more enjoyable. By doing this I feel the teacher is teaching a lesson, but to the students, the students are just having fun. This is a very inspiring article!