Shake Up Shared Reading: Expanding on Read Alouds to Encourage Student Independence

"Shared reading is the bridge between read-alouds and independent reading for most early readers. Yet it's seldom a regular practice in primary grade classrooms because teachers struggle to find the right books and ask the right questions of young readers. Building from the tremendous success of her book The Ramped-Up Read Aloud, Maria Walther provides ready-to-go multi-day learning sequences focused on one picture book that show the connections between read-alouds and shared reading. Shake Up Shared Reading provides teachers with a diverse collection of recent, compelling texts that are ideal for shared reading, along with clear and direct language to use with students. Every lesson is rooted in research and best practice, based on Maria's 30+ years teaching first grade"--