Using Shared Reading for Inferencing

1. Using Shared Reading for Inferencing Jessica Rhoades EDU 318

2. Theme • Encourage the use of shared reading and think aloud strategies to encourage inferencing in emergent through proficient readers. • Strategies and resources that are essential to the inferencing process.

3. Fisher, Frey, & Lapp (2008) • Interactive read alouds with a think aloud process. • Story Time, book clubs, and classroom readings. • When considering how to teach inferencing to further comprehension abilities, students need to see this modeled. • The teacher should offer his or her prediction or thoughts about the story and explain why they feel that way, pulling information from the text and illustrations. • Expert teachers should focus their modeling during shared reading on four categories: comprehension, vocabulary, text structures, and text features.

4. Fisher, Frey, & Lapp (2008) cont’ • Think Aloud Strategies • Activating background • Summarizing • Predicting • Clarifying • Questioning • Visualizing • Monitoring • Synthesizing • Evaluating • Connecting

5. Richards & Anderson (2003) • What is Inferencing? • “Strategic process of generating assumptions, making predictions, and coming to conclusions based upon given information in text and illustrations” • “How Do You Know” strategy • Ask students to make a prediction and encourage them to prove why they chose it. • Helping emergent readers focus their attention on important information that is explicitly stated in storybooks and depicted in their illustrations.

6. Van Kleeck (2008) • Indicates how natural the inferencing process during story time can be and how beneficial it can be for children at the preschool level. • Skills necessary for reading can be found as early as age four and if those skills aren’t encouraged than it is likely the child will be behind, and in often times, stay behind. • Encourage story time in families with “children at risk for later reading comprehension, language disorders, lower ses, and non-native English speakers

7. Transitioning from Emergent to Proficient Shared Reading Inferencing Strategies Emergent Readers Older Readers Model Inferencing Strategies Independent reading and sharing thoughts with peers verbally or written. Story Time via library, classroom or home. Model inferencing strategies on more extensive reading specifics. Concentrate on comprehension, vocab, text structure, and text feature Encourage students to make connections to the text or illustrations. Make predictions.

8. Suggestions • Seize teachable moments to encourage early inferencing skills. • Visit eworkshop.on.ca.edu • Videos and printable information Visit reading.ecb.org http://reading.ecb.org/temp/read/index.html • Encourage students/families to participate in their local children’s library story time or book clubs. • Have a family literacy night.

9. References • Fisher, D., Frey, N. & Lapp, D. (2008). Shared readings: modeling comprehension, vocabulary, text structures, and text features for older readers. The Reading Teacher, 61(7), 548-556. • Richards, J.C., and Anderson, N.A. (2003). How do you know? A strategy to help emergent readers make inferences. The Reading Teacher, 57(3), 290- 293. • Van Kleeck, A. (2008). Providing preschool foundations for later reading comprehension: the importance of and ideas for targeting inferencing in storybook-sharing interventions. Psychology in the Schools, 45(7), 627-643