Related Links

• Into the Book: Teacher Area - A great website with some comprehension strategies, including videos, research, teacher resources, printable resources, music etc
• The Components of Effective Read Alouds – (A PowerPoint Presentation to view or download) – Teacher preparation for Read Alouds. Also talks about Think Alouds
• What are read alouds and what can they do for instruction?
• Reading Aloud -- Are Students Ever Too Old?
• Reading Aloud -- Is It Worth It?
• Print Awareness During Read Alouds
• Read Aloud
• Teaching Shapes Using Read-Alouds, Visualization, and Sketch to Stretch
• Thundering Tall Tales: Using Read-Aloud as a Springboard to Writing
• Shhh! Bear's Sleeping: Learning About Nonfiction and Fiction Using Read-Alouds
• Story Elements Alive!
• Predicting and Retelling Read Alouds
• Write Aloud - Write-alouds model to students how writers think, make decisions, use information, and organize their writing. Comparison of Interactive Writing and Writing-Aloud
• Writing: Components of a Writing Program
• Building Reading Comprehension Through Think-Alouds - Through this lesson, the teacher will model the think-aloud strategy for students.
• What Think-Alouds Can Do for Students
• Using Think-Alouds to Improve Reading Comprehension
• Think Alouds - Provides specific steps for conducting think-alouds –
• An Example of a Think-Aloud - A useful example for conducting a think-aloud with a science-related passage.
• Math Think-Alouds - Building daily math skills through verbal problem solving.
• Math Think Alouds - Provides a sample procedure for using think-alouds to solve math problems.