You can encourage your child to read signs as you walk or drive around the neighborhood. Have your child look for a favorite cereal or juice at the grocery store. Cut cereal box labels, coupons or newspaper adds that your child can read and put them into a book. In shared reading the parent or adult reads a section, and the child reads the repetitive phrases. It is often the refrain in a fairy tale, a song or rhyme.
Repetitive books make fun and easy shared reading books.
The child reads the refrain and the adult reads everything else. It is easy to predict the new words from the pattern and in many cases the corresponding illustration. It is predictable that some new animal will be sitting on the rug on the next page. Predictable books such as those listed below, can be fun for shared reading. Many children will actively look from the text to the pictures to figure out a difficult word.