Another thing that I think is really important in the literature right now is shared read-alouds. It’s always been shown that shared reading aloud is fabulous for children when they’re learning how to read, and recent studies have shown it also is fabulous for children with autism.
And recent studies have shown that it’s fabulous for even older children. However, sustained silent reading — where they’re just reading by themselves doesn’t help. So it needs to be guided discussion that really talks to them about what’s going on in it and being able to have discussions and writing down what’s going on. And I think that is so rich and helpful.
It also is a perfect time to start getting them to talk with other children about what they’ve read and discuss what their opinion is according to others.
I love that time because it’s so supporting and they learn the text so well that they’re able to start forming opinions. It’s one of my favorites.
