Historically, and continuing to the present, children in the primary grades receive the lion's share of attention and resources in learning to read. This makes sense: Young, early readers have a head start in achieving well not only in literacy skills, but in school in general. However, as inner-city, middle-grade teachers will readily attest, emergent readers make up a part of their intermediate classrooms as well. The challenge, then, becomes providing effective early reading instruction to older students whose interests and motivation often differ widely from those of 5- and 6-year-olds. In this article, the authors share an instructional strategy called Shared Reading for Older Emergent Readers (also known simply as Shared Reading). This strategy is one of a number of powerful techniques that they have found helps to move older emergent readers to fluency, comprehension, and enthusiasm and confidence as readers. (Contains 3 figures and 1 table.)