“Shared Readings: Modeling Comprehension, Vocabulary, Text Structures, and Text Features for Older Readers” Review

Sometimes I found this article a little confusing. When the article started out, I thought the researchers were saying that the teacher was not doing something right in their shared reading assignments, however, the further I read in the article I started thinking that the researchers were saying that the teachers were doing what they are supposed to. So, were the teachers doing the shared reading correctly or not? There were a few times that I did not agree with how the teachers were teaching the assignment, for example, the one teacher that was making prediction about the book to the class, I felt that this should have been a group participating lesson. I understood the part about the teachers wanting their students to find the meaning of unknown words on their own, however, sometimes students need the teacher to tell them the meaning, also a student asking someone else, especially another student, might not be a good idea because they could be misled. The last thing that I was wondering was, do you have to include all four major areas of instruction (comprehension, vocabulary, text structures, and text features) into a shared reading assignment? I ask because the researchers point this particular knowledge about the teachers they observed.

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