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    This document provides guidance for teaching reading strategies to students using a think aloud approach. It involves three main steps: 1) The teacher prepares by selecting a strategy and text to model thinking aloud. They plan where to pause and share their thoughts. 2) The teacher gathers students and introduces the lesson by explaining what reading and think alouds are. 3) The teacher models the strategy by reading aloud and periodically sharing their internal thoughts and decision-making with students. The goal is for students to eventually internalize and independently apply the reading strategies.

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    This document provides guidance for teaching reading strategies to students using a think aloud approach. It involves three main steps: 1) The teacher prepares by selecting a strategy and text to model thinking aloud. They plan where to pause and share their thoughts. 2) The teacher gathers students and introduces the lesson by explaining what reading and think alouds are. 3) The teacher models the strategy by reading aloud and periodically sharing their internal thoughts and decision-making with students. The goal is for students to eventually internalize and independently apply the reading strategies.

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    This document provides guidance for teaching reading strategies to students using a think aloud approach. It involves three main steps: 1) The teacher prepares by selecting a strategy and text to model thinking aloud. They plan where to pause and share their thoughts. 2) The teacher gathers students and introduces the lesson by explaining what reading and think alouds are. 3) The teacher models the strategy by reading aloud and periodically sharing their internal thoughts and decision-making with students. The goal is for students to eventually internalize and independently apply the reading strategies.

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    This document provides guidance for teaching reading strategies to students using a think aloud approach. It involves three main steps: 1) The teacher prepares by selecting a strategy and text to model thinking aloud. They plan where to pause and share their thoughts. 2) The teacher gathers students and introduces the lesson by explaining what reading and think alouds are. 3) The teacher models the strategy by reading aloud and periodically sharing their internal thoughts and decision-making with students. The goal is for students to eventually internalize and independently apply the reading strategies.

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    Think Aloud*

    ~Used to teach all strategies~


    Objective: After spending weeks, sometimes months, modeling your own thinking processes through
    THINK ALOUDS on a single strategy in a variety of texts, students will gradually be asked to assume
    responsibility for using the strategy independently as they read.

    Materials: Variety of texts, chart, and markers

    Procedure:
    1. Do your homework!
    • Decide on strategy to be taught (See subsequent lessons).
    • Think about what you really want your students to know about the strategy
    ~write a definition of the strategy
    ~decide on desired outcome at end of study
    ~decide on tentative time line for study (how long depends on when applied by students or when
    boredom sets in)
    ~decide on authentic assessments to use (written response, listening in on conversations, etc.)
    • Plan ahead
    ~think about the strategy to be taught
    ~pick a text
    ~identify the central concept and/or key themes in the text
    ~think about your own experiences related to the concept/themes
    ~identify where you might pause and think aloud for your students (use post-it-notes to mark,
    remove during lesson and stick on back of the text where you will be able to refer to it)

    2. Gather kids in front of you for instruction/modeling


    • Introduce lessons that will follow
    ~Ask what is reading? Add student responses to class chart. Keep posted in the room with
    responses. (nature of answers may evolve as your class begins to explore thinking when
    reading as you provide explicit instruction in reading strategies.)
    ~Explain the word “text” (Refers to texts, newspapers, charts, magazines, etc.)
    ~Talk about “researchers” who study the way people read and what people think about while
    reading. Explain that during the year the students will learn a few of the strategies that
    researches found all good readers use when they read.
    ~Explain what a think aloud is: “When I’m reading you’ll see me looking at the text and showing
    you the pictures like I always do. But, you’ll see me stop and think aloud. I’ll probably
    look up at the ceiling so you’ll know I’m telling you what I was just thinking as I read the
    text.”

    Assessment:**

    *This lesson is intended to be used with each subsequent lesson to ensure true teacher modeling rather than
    direction-giving.
    **Informal assessment should be on-going once the objective is introduced. Formal assessment needs to
    occur at appropriate intervals.

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