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Enhance Reading Comprehension with Think Alouds: A Literacy Strategy

Discover the effectiveness of think alouds as a literacy strategy to foster productive reading. This approach emphasizes self-questioning techniques and making connections to the text. By modeling your thought process while reading aloud, you help students grasp comprehension strategies. Engage with real texts instead of workbooks, allowing for creative thinking across all content areas. While this method is teacher-centered and may distract some students, its benefits in promoting active reading and comprehension are significant. Ideal for various subjects and grades.

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Enhance Reading Comprehension with Think Alouds: A Literacy Strategy

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  1. “Think alouds” Literacy Strategy Chat by Lucky Souvannarath

  2. THE PURPOSE • Productive readers practice self-questioning techniques and make connections to the text. • Think alouds allow you to MODEL and EXPLAIN how to do so.

  3. The steps 1. Read a portion of a selected text. 2. Stop and step aside from the text for a moment. 3. Verbalize what you are thinking to make sense of the text.

  4. The Conditions • Present the strategy in real text (no workbooks). • Do not provide a list of instructions or procedures for comprehension.

  5. A noiseless patient spiderby Walt whitman

  6. Stanza 1 A noiseless, patient spider, I mark’d, where, on a little promontory, it stood isolated; Mark’d how, to explore the vacant, vast surrounding, It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself; Ever unreeling them—ever tirelessly speeding them.

  7. The PROS • Combines modeling with opportunities to express creative thinking while reading. • Can be used in every single content area. • No need for worksheets.

  8. The cons • Instruction is teacher-centered, rather than student centered. • Student may find this as a way to day dream and not pay attention.

  9. References and sources • Fisher, D. & Frey, N. (2012). Improving adolescent literacy: Content area strategies at work (3rd ed.). Boston: Pearson. • Fisher, D., Frey, N., Bronzo, W.G., Ivey, G. (2011). 50 Instructional Routines to Develop Content Literacy (2nd ed.). Boston: Pearson.

  10. And Again I present to you…

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