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Mrs. Concepcion
Now I lay me down to rest.I pray I pass tomorrow’s test.If I should die before I wake,that’s one less test I’ll have to take.
A think-aloud of reading is creating a record, either
through writing or talking aloud, of the Strategic
decision-making and interpretive processes of going
through a text, reporting everything the reader is aware
of noticing, doing, seeing, feeling, asking, and
understanding as she reads. A think-aloud involves
talking about the reading strategies you are using and
the content of the piece you are reading.Dr. Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Improving Comprehension with Think-Aloud Strategies, 2001, p. 19
Purpose for a Think Aloud
Make picture in your mindStop and reread to clarifyMake connection to storyAsk questionsLook at story structure and genreStudy author’s style and word choiceFeel what is happeningVerbalize confusion when other strategies do not work
Self-Assessment: Think-Aloud Strategies
Never Sometimes Often Always
Make a prediction
Ask a question
Clarify something
Make a comment
Make a connection
Figure out if I need to reread
Ask myself if I understand what I’ve read
Make mental pictures (visualize)
Compare what is being learned now to what has been learned previously
Good Readers vs. Poor ReadersGood Readers Poor Readers Often Do Not
Activate prior knowledgeSet a purpose for readingDecode textMake a personal connection to textMake predictionsVisualizeAsk questionsMonitor understandingSummarizeApply what they learned
Draw on background knowledge as they readMake predictions as they readVisualize the events of a text as they readRecognize confusion as they read;Recognize a text's structure or organization as they readIdentify or recognize a purpose for readingMonitor their strategy use according to the purpose for reading the text; In other words, students do not necessarily think while they are reading
Informational Text Features
What to look for when reading informational text:Headings and subheadingsCaptionsphotographs, pictures, illustrationsdiagramscharts and graphsbold, highlighted and italicized textparentheses, dashes