Observation Task 3: Teaching Shared/Guided Reading
Table 3: Teaching Shared/Guided Reading
Title: Shapes on the seashores
What the teacher does
The teacher asks the students
what do they see in the cover
page?
The teacher asks the students
what do they think the story is
about?
The teacher reads the story title
and the author name for the
students
The teacher point on the title,
the author name and the cover
page and asks the students what
is this
The teacher point on the words
and read aloud for the students
and shows the students the
directions to read the story from
left to right
What the children do Comments
Students were bored and they did
Students look at the pictures and
not get excited to listen to the story
answer the teacher.
they were only listening to the
teacher while reading it. In my
opinion, the teacher should read
Students predict what’s the story
the story with emotions and
about.
different pitch of voice. For
example to raise her voice and
lower it and to give emotions
while reading instead of reading in
The students listen to the teacher
one voice level to grab their
attention to her. Also, The teacher
is choosing around 4 or 5 students
to read the story for the other
The students answers the teacher
students after her. In this way the
students are sitting for more than
20 minutes which affects their
concentrating because they starts
to feel bored so start to move and
misbehave.
The students listen to the teacher
The teacher asks the students The students look at the

about the pictures in the story illustrations and answer the teacher

The students listen to the student

After reading the story the
who is reading the story for them
teacher choose one student to

come and read the story for the

students.