Then I stop and evaluate what I just thought and realize that everyone enjoys holing hands so to speak. There was a study done in which college students were read to for an hour a week for 13 or so weeks. The benefits were significant and lasting (even six months later the group that was read to was reading more than the control group which was simply instructed in the conventions of grammar).

Within the confines of the Success For All reading / literacy program there is a constant component termed Listening Comprehension which in some ways approximates the Shared Book Experience instructional technique laid out in the ninth chapter of Framing Literacy.

Children gather to listen to and follow along to a story, many times a favorite book or one recommended by a student. Discussion takes place as well as story retell and at times choral reading.

Justin