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Think-Alouds are a metacognitive strategy to help students think about their reading process while reading. While “thinking aloud,” students select a short piece of text, anticipate the difficulties in the text, read the text out loud, and stop often to share their thinking with others along the way. For example, students might point out the words in the text that trigger their thinking (e.g., “When I read [words from the text], I am reminded of…,” “When I read [words from the text], I wonder…,” “I am confused when I read [words from the text]”)
STEPS:
TEXT: Select a RIGOROUS TEXT for the class to read
REVIEW THINK ALOUD SCRIPTS: As a class, review Student Resource: Think-Aloud Scripts and introduce Student Resource: Academic Language Scripts by modeling the structured dialogue for students.
STUDENTS READ: Students individually read the text, circling key terms and underlining main ideas.
PARTNER READ-THROUGH: Students are partnered together for the second read-through and designate one person as Partner A and the other as Partner B. Partner A starts the dialogue by reading the first paragraph or chunk of text out loud.
AFTER READING: After reading, students will use Student Resource: Academic Language Scripts to start the dialogue.
PARTNER DIALOGUE: Partner B responds to Partner A using Student Resource: Academic Language Scripts . They can ask a question or make a statement. Partner A responds back to Partner B using Student Resource: Academic Language Scripts.
WRITE NOTES AFTER DIALOGUE: After finishing their dialogue, each student writes a short note about their conversation in the margins of the text.
REPEAT: Students repeat the process with Partner B reading the next section of text aloud.
USE NOTES TO SUMMARIZE: Students then use their margin notes to craft a summary of the text.
SHARE SUMMARY: Students can share their summaries by participating in a structured collaboration strategy.
VARIATION:
As students become more comfortable with the structured dialogue, have them participate in larger groups and without the provided scripts resources.
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