Perspectives on Shared Reading : Planning and Practice

It is an OLD book on the subject. Copyright 2000. Wish I had seen that before I purchased it.

Perspectives on Shared Reading: Planning and Practice is an inspirational text for educators of all ages. This text offered many different shared reading strategies for both the experienced and a new teacher in education. The experiences that the author’s express make shared reading not only a fun learning adventure but also a professional development on enhancing any educator’s best practices. This text also is teacher friendly and educators are given many different teaching applications that can be applied to their shared reading lessons. The topics that are included on how to organize shared reading and the different learning skills that emerge from shared reading in the classroom were helpful and easily utilized into the classroom setting. The way in which this book is organized is also helpful in the sense of how to begin shared reading, what happens throughout shared reading, and how to wrap up shared reading lessons; which is detailed and provides many different helpful aspects for any educator to succeed at implementing. Perspectives on Shared Reading will definitely be used in our classrooms and will be shared with colleagues at our schools during Professional Learning Communities.

I found the book very helpful. It was easy to read and I believe that I can take the information straight into the classroom.

Bobbi Fisher has done it again! This is a must for all early childhood teachers. A very readable, practical book about using shared reading as a strategy in your early childhood classroom, along with the added pleasure of having Bobbi's daughter talk about her experiences as a first year teacher. A must!