Think Aloud

What is it?

A strategy to use to slow down the reading process and let students get a good look at how skilled readers construct meaning from a text.

Web Links

• Building Reading Comprehension Through Think Alouds (Gr. 6-8) - Through this lesson, the teacher will model the think-aloud strategy for students. (from Read-Write-Think)
• What Think Alouds Can Do for Students (from Scholastic)
• 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.
• Think Alouds in the Classroom - Two lessons/activities using think alouds
• Math Think Alouds - Building daily math skills through verbal problem solving. (from Scholastic)
• Math Think Alouds - Provides a sample procedure for using think-alouds to solve math problems.
• Think Alouds - What is it, how to use it, how could think-alouds be used in math, social studies, and science instruction.