Sharing

Teacher should give opportunities to students to share their reading with their friends. By sharing, students gain understanding of their teacher’s interest and reading preferences. Students share feelings and experience with their friends. By listening to others, a student can know others’ experiences and what do they feel about the book they read.

There are many ways of sharing that involves articulating, clarifying and verifying. During the articulation, students express their thoughts and beliefs about the book they have read. Then they clarify and verify their thoughts within the context of their own value systems. A teacher can ask authentic questions based on the book. For example “Do you want to have Sean’s fathers to be your father? Why?” This kind of questions may lead them to think critically and provide their own answers and opinion, not just answering yes and no. This kind of questions also will enable students to talk to their experience as well as relate the literature with their real-life situations. They may link it by using the elements of the literature; analyze the genre, author, topic, themes and issues.