The Benefits of Shared Reading in the Early Years

In the years two and three there's a bigger role for reading text together whether it's in things like choral reading or the modelled reading by the teacher. In that fluency exercise or maybe you know ten minutes of fluency a day it's an opportunity really to build that that prosody and that ability to read words in the context of a whole sentence or a whole text. There's some meaning making and some vocabulary building going on because you can't stop the brain from doing that so much of that is natural to the brain to make sense of text.