The school district is using a balanced reading program, which includes the following four components, said Linda McConnell, a teacher at Jefferson Elementary. With shared reading, teachers read aloud to the entire class. On subsequent rereadings, students begin to participate in the actual reading of the story. For the very youngest students, that begins when they start reciting familiar phrases that are repeated throughout a story. Shared reading is always interactive between teacher and students.
Students join in on words and phases.
That is another term for phonics. It will be used in schools this year. Very young children don't always speak correctly at first. Likewise, children don't always write correctly when they first begin. But children who write a lot by themselves learn a great deal about how to read.