Although shared reading is most commonly used in lower elementary grades to support the
development of early reading skills (concepts of print, sight word recognition, etc.), it can also benefit middle and high school students.
«There is much more problem solving, much more interaction with books,
teaching of early reading skills, pre-writing, and even some early writing skills that didn't used to occur until first grade,» she said in a recent Washington Post interview.
Unlike many education reform initiatives, the solutions that directly address student learning through the provision of new or improved forms of instruction have had significant positive impact on student achievement in grades 7 through 11 in mathematics, language arts, social studies and science and on the development
of early reading skills.