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During Reading Strategy
THINK ALOUDS                                         

Overview:  This strategy involves having the teacher model for students the processes involved in constructing meaning from the specific text used in class.  The teacher reads the material aloud and verbalizes his/her own thoughts while reading orally, thereby making the thinking process apparent to the students. 

Steps: 

          1.  Make predictions or develop hypotheses

2.    Describe the mental image formed in your brain

3.    Make analogies—linking prior knowledge to new information obtained from the text

4.    Verbalize confusing points, i.e. words not known, confusing syntax, unclear ideas

5.    Demonstrate fix-up strategies when comprehension is cloudy – reread, read ahead, figure out a word’s meaning, etc.

6.    Ask yourself questions as you go along.  Are you understanding what you are reading?

(Davey, 1983)

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