This article was a great resource for teaching us as future educators how to be prepared to model for our students.  As the article states, we need to model for our students how to read, and how to learn vocabulary definitions, etc.  They need to see the teacher reading and thinking out loud about what he/she read.  This will get the students thinking more about information they are reading in a book, instead of just reading to get through with it.  Like many others, I had not thought about using shared reading for upper elementary age students.  I always believed that was something you did until they were able to read on their own.  Through this article I learned that is not always the case.